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Re: `holding back' packages?



Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca> writes:

> I know RPM won't overwrite files that have been touched. 

That's incorrect.  It will either backup config files and overwrite,
or create a .rpmnew, depending on the the RPM.

> Then again RPM doesn't seem to distinguish between binaries and
> config files.  

It does.

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