Upgrade of largely vanilla RH 6.2 to Winston. Upgrade.log had backup of practically every file in /etc saved as .rpmorig. Whilst this can be good, most of these files had never even been touched. A touch wholesale, really.
verified ... even files that did not change were backed up ... (such as /etc/host.conf & /etc/host.conf.rpmnew)
*** Bug 13151 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This happens with beta2 too (see some notes in duplicate #13151).
This appears to be fixed in beta3 from my upgrade test
Not here. I did two upgrades, but both times junk in /etc was created.
This should be fixed with the latest initscripts (5.30-1 or greater).
using initscripts-5.39-1 (pinstripe beta), most files were not duplicated as .rpmnew, except in the following 3 files during a minimal 6.2 -> pinstripe upgrade: /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny /etc/printcap These three files were duplicated even though they are the same file ...
Here are the corresponding upgrade.log entries for the setup package showing the saving of the files ... Upgrading setup. warning: /etc/csh.cshrc created as /etc/csh.cshrc.rpmnew warning: /etc/csh.login created as /etc/csh.login.rpmnew warning: /etc/exports created as /etc/exports.rpmnew warning: /etc/filesystems created as /etc/filesystems.rpmnew warning: /etc/group created as /etc/group.rpmnew warning: /etc/host.conf created as /etc/host.conf.rpmnew warning: /etc/hosts.allow created as /etc/hosts.allow.rpmnew warning: /etc/hosts.deny created as /etc/hosts.deny.rpmnew warning: /etc/inputrc saved as /etc/inputrc.rpmorig warning: /etc/motd saved as /etc/motd.rpmorig warning: /etc/passwd created as /etc/passwd.rpmnew warning: /etc/printcap created as /etc/printcap.rpmnew warning: /etc/profile created as /etc/profile.rpmnew warning: /etc/protocols saved as /etc/protocols.rpmorig warning: /etc/securetty saved as /etc/securetty.rpmorig warning: /etc/services saved as /etc/services.rpmorig warning: /var/log/lastlog created as /var/log/lastlog.rpmnew
Fixed.