Bug 439517

Summary:	update of module-init-tools overwrites old modprobe.conf
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Devin <devin>
Component:	module-init-tools	Assignee:	Jon Masters <jcm>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Devin 2008-03-28 21:00:46 UTC

Description of problem:

After updating my system yesterday and rebooting, I found that my modprobe.conf
file had been overwritten, without even leaving me with a "modprobe.conf.rpmold"
file containing my module data.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.4-2
  
Actual results:

After updating 'module-init-tools', I'm left with a blank modprobe.conf.

Expected results:

The update package should have installed its blank modprobe.conf at
modprobe.conf.rpmnew.  At the least, it should have backed up my modprobe.conf
to modprobe.conf.rpmold.

Additional info:

I had module data for configuring my sound card without skipping in my
modprobe.conf file.  That data is gone now.  I will consider moving to Ubuntu,
as I'm sick of things like this happening during updates.

Comment 1 Jon Masters 2008-04-26 01:39:08 UTC

Was this update pulled in by a yum update or did you manually install?

Comment 2 Devin 2008-04-26 04:11:08 UTC

The update was pulled in by a yum update.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 10:18:05 UTC

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Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 06:16:38 UTC

Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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