Bug 468655

Summary:	Logwatch update overwrites custom config files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Simon Andrews <simon.andrews>
Component:	logwatch	Assignee:	Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	varekova
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2008-11-08 02:10:33 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Simon Andrews 2008-10-27 08:29:13 UTC

Description of problem:
When updating to the latest logwatch the changes I had made to 
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf were overwritten and no backup of the old version was saved.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logwatch-7.3.6-25.fc9.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install older version of logwatch (eg logwatch-7.3.6-22.fc9.noarch)
2. Make changes to /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf
3. Update to logwatch-7.3.6-25.fc9.noarch
  
Actual results:
The custom logwatch.conf is overwritten, losing all changes and no .rpmsave file is generated


Expected results:
Either the existing conf file is left and the new conf file is installed as an rpmnew, or if there is a change to the file structure the old file is preserved as a rpmsave file.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-10-30 09:47:52 UTC

logwatch-7.3.6-26.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/logwatch-7.3.6-26.fc9

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-10-31 10:26:33 UTC

logwatch-7.3.6-26.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update logwatch'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-9328

Comment 3 Simon Andrews 2008-11-04 16:03:59 UTC

Just to note that the instructions given in #2 are incorrect (I wondered why the update hadn't shown up).

New updates for F9 now appear in updates-testing-newkey, not updates-testing.

Anyway, having installed the update the problem seems to be fixed.  I've added a comment to bodhi saying it works now.

Thanks for fixing this.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-11-08 02:10:30 UTC

logwatch-7.3.6-26.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.