Bug 50243

Summary:	rpm -Uvh overwrites config files
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joe Acosta <josepha48>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2001-07-29 00:14:30 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 Joe Acosta 2001-07-29 00:14:26 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7 i686)

Description of problem:


How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit a configuration file in /etc for a program (take apache)
2. upgrade the package that has its configuration in /etc somewhere
3. run rpm -Uvh apache-<newer version>
4. your config may be saved as <config>.rpmsave
sometimes this happens sometimes it does not
	

Expected Results:  rpm should prompt the user and ask if they want to use
the old or new config file.  In the case of upgrading an entie system a
user should be able to select which config files he/she wants saved.
 A users should not have useless rpmsave files all over there system.  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-07-29 14:51:16 UTC

rpm is a batch mode install program, no user dialogue is desired or permitted.

The config file handling depends on how the files are packaged, different
people package in different ways. Meanwhile, the mechanism provided
by rpm is exactly the same as it's always been, and will not be changed.
If you have problems with how specific files are packages, then make a
bug report against that package, not rpm.