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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:
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
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
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.
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.