Bug 7657

Summary:	up2date wipes out .mailcap file first time it runs
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mark Lord <mlord>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Mark Lord 1999-12-07 19:02:45 UTC

When the redhat update agent is run for the very first time,
it wipes out the user's ~/.mailcap file, replacing it with
two new lines for the update manager.

Once the two lines are in ~/.mailcap, the problem goes away.

Not sure where the bug is, since the /sbin/up2date script
appears to try to open the .mailcap in "w+" mode.. maybe this
is not a valid mode in Pythonspeak?

Cheers

mlord

Comment 1 Mark Lord 1999-12-07 19:16:59 UTC

Ahh.. looked in the Python references, and the "w+" mode means "truncate".
This script /usr/sbin/up2date should be using "w" instead of "w+" when
opening the ~/.mailcap file for updating!!

-ml

Comment 2 Mark Lord 1999-12-07 19:18:59 UTC

Ooopps.. meant to say that open mode should be "a", not "w" or "w+"!!

Comment 3 Preston Brown 2000-02-24 18:51:59 UTC

this is very true.  fixed for 6.2.