Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 85875
Sendmail RPM upgrade overwrites /etc/mail/Makefile without backup
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:51:56 EDT
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:
The sendmail src.rpm has this correctly marked as %config file, so this should be ok. greetings, Florian La Roche