Bug 89993 - up2date -u shouldn't create rcN.d/SnnFoo
Summary: up2date -u shouldn't create rcN.d/SnnFoo
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: up2date
Version: 9
Hardware: athlon
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adrian Likins
QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-30 21:39 UTC by gregrwm
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:53 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-08-20 20:38:22 UTC
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Description gregrwm 2003-04-30 21:39:33 UTC
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Description of problem:
update -u currently will do the equivalent of chkconfig --add <package> for any
package which gets updated.  this isn't really what users want.

entries in /etc/init.d/rcN.d should not be added by up2date if they are not
already there (nor if they already are, duh).

perhaps this is really a rpm -U issue?  rpm -i should probably create those
entries, but rpm -U probably should not.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-2.8.39-1.7.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install rh7.3
2.chconfig --del <package>
3.up2date <same package> reinserts the chkconfig softlinks in rcN.d/
    

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2003-04-30 23:12:59 UTC
Thats a general packaging issue. Installing the packages by hand
would do the same thing. Reassigning to the distro component
for Red Hat Linux. 

Comment 2 gregrwm 2003-05-06 15:12:38 UTC
that does beg the question, actually.  running rpm by hand implies an
expectation that things will be freshly installed.  when we run up2date, we
would rather expect that our configuration will not be corrupted.

it may be correct that it is a rpm issue, but it's impact on up2date users is
far more serious than it's impact at installation time.

i run up2date daily overnight.  this is the only way to keep ahead of the script
kiddies.  with this bug, i need to daily monitor if my rcN.d directories have
been corrupted by up2date.


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