Bug 600436 – rpm overwrites changed rc.sysinit on update

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Bug 600436 - rpm overwrites changed rc.sysinit on update

Summary:	rpm overwrites changed rc.sysinit on update

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	12
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	2010-06-04 13:27 EDT by udo
Modified:	2014-03-16 23:23 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2010-06-04 14:29:13 EDT
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Description udo 2010-06-04 13:27:31 EDT

Description of problem:
rpm overwrites changed rc.sysinit on update

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-9.02.2-1.i686

How reproducible:
update initscripts-9.02.2-1.i686

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum update
2. initscripts is updated
3. check edits made before update, they are now gone
  
Actual results:
updated rc.sysinit, edits gone

Expected results:
rc.sysinit.rpmsave created

Additional info:

Comment 1 iarly selbir 2010-06-04 13:53:58 EDT

What version are you updating to?

Thanks for your report.

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Fedora Bugzappers Team Member

Comment 2 udo 2010-06-04 14:07:21 EDT

The one mentioned in the version info.
The issue has been present for a while.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-04 14:29:13 EDT

Correct. rc.sysinit is not a config file; it's important for consistent booting that the rpm packaged copy be present.

Comment 4 udo 2010-06-04 14:33:33 EDT

So how do we prevent my changes from over writing?

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-04 14:38:36 EDT

You shouldn't be editing it directly. What do you need to edit it for?

Comment 6 udo 2010-06-04 14:59:21 EDT

/sbin/service uptimed createbootid

at the bottom.

What else would be a suitable place to create the bootid soon in the boot process, but without overwrite risk?

Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-04 15:05:14 EDT

Write your own init script for it, have it set a very early priority.

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