On Fri, Oct 15, 2004, Alexander Belck wrote:
> Today I updated apache following security advise.
> It happens that the instalation overides rc.apache that should be treated as a
> configuration file, since there ara options that could be set previously (and
> in this specific case, I needed to implement the graceful action).
No, rc.xxx are *not* configuration files! If you want to change
some of its settings write them to rc.conf, please.
> In general form I think that the rpm install script should at least rename the
> old version to .rpmsave or make the new a .rpmnew if files differ and display a
> warning.
.rpmsave are only created for config files. rc.xxx are not config files,
hence no .rpmsave files.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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