Bug 15412

Summary: Overwriting of /var/log/lastlog while upgrade
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component: setupAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 7.0CC: rvokal
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Description Enrico Scholz 2000-08-04 16:42:57 UTC 
The logfile /var/log/lastlog will be replaced by an empty file while
package-upgrade. It's better to consider it as %config(noreplace) in the
spec-file:

-%verify(not md5 size mtime) /var/log/lastlog
+ %verify(not md5 size mtime) %config(noreplace) /var/log/lastlog


Example:
$ lastlog
[... a lot of names and dates ...]
$ rpm -U  /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/setup-2.3.2-1.noarch.rpm
$ lastlog
$
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-08-07 04:12:52 UTC 
Fixed in setup-2.3.4-1; thanks for the bug report.