backup systems. (Use Amanda!!)

[John Abreau]

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Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Not really.  For example one time I submitted a patch to an
> RPM-installed file (which was later accepted).  I planned to upgrade
> the RPM anyways once the patch was accepted, but didn't want to put
> the system in a state where the upgrade would fail.
> 
> Also, not all modified files are necessarily executables -- sometimes
> they are ancillary scripts, configuration data, etc -- and those
> locations are hard-coded into existing binaries.  Are you suggesting I
> mv the file and replace it with a symlink?  That would be just as
> problematic (if not moreso).

It sounds like you're talking about a pathological case that's unusual 
and temporary. An admittedly non-robust approach for dealing with this 
would be a manually-maintained inclusion list, and developing a habit of 
updating it whenever you need to mess with an rpm-installed file in 
that manner. 

It's ugly, to be sure, but then so is the idea of modifying an 
rpm-installed binary.


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