Bug 85875 – Sendmail RPM upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/Makefile without backup

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Bug 85875 - Sendmail RPM upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/Makefile without backup

Summary:	Sendmail RPM upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/Makefile without backup

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	sendmail (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Florian La Roche
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2003-03-09 22:19 EST by Anthony Thyssen
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:51 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-03-26 05:35:12 EST
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Description Anthony Thyssen 2003-03-09 22:19:58 EST

Description of problem:

As per the recent spate of Cert Advisories I upgraded the sendmail on out
systems using the Redhat Sendmail RPM.

In the process, sendmail just over wrote the /etc/mail/Makefile without
checking for local modifications.  We heavily modifide this file to allow
us to install aliases, access and genertable items from a multiple-machine
database.  After patching it too a few days before the over-write was
and had to require a restoration from backups to recover our Makefile.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

For Rh7.2:  
  sendmail-8.11.6-23.72  A widely used Mail Transport Agent (MTA).
  sendmail-cf-8.11.6-23.72 The files needed to reconfigure Sendmail.

Presumabily for all sendmail RPM's

How reproducible:

Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Modify /etc/mail/Makefile
2.  Force a freasen of the sendmail rpm installation
3.  Makfile modification is gone!
    
Actual results:

No warning, file is just over written


Expected results:

The file /etc/mail/Mailfile should not have been over writen, instead the
installed version should have been placed in a  ".rpmnew" and a warning issued
just as RPM's do for other files (like  sendmail.mc  and sendmail.cf)


Additional info:

Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2003-03-26 05:35:12 EST

The sendmail src.rpm has this correctly marked as %config file,
so this should be ok.

greetings,

Florian La Roche

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