text login as default?

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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Sylvain Rouillard wrote:

> Out of boredom, I decided to check out all the files on my system that yum
> created as *.rpmnew. My understanding of such files is that yum lets the
> current file unchanged and lets the user do the shift manually if s/he
> wants. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> So, I blindely went through a bunch of those, saving the original files as
> *.rpmsave and replacing them by the *.rpmnew. I shut down the pooter,
> thinking it would make me a nice surprise when I wake up (heck, that's a
> test FC!). Well, I have to confess I was rather disapointed, the only
> surprise was that I didn't get any X login screen, just the console mode,
> and it was no fun because startx brought me straight to my desktop with no
> bug. Investigating on what could have caused this sudden change, I noticed
> this:
> 
> # diff /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.rpmsave
> 18c18
> < id:3:initdefault:
> ---
>> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> Fair enough, no bug here and I found the culprit. Though this raises some
> questions... what's the point of this change? are we supposed to login in
> in text mode to test something? aren't we supposed to bring these rpmnew
> files that yum creates into action? Too many questions for a Sunday waking
> up!
> 
> I hope someone can show me the light toward the understanding of these
> rpmnew files. You'll find me near the coffee machine.
> 
> Cheers
> 

Coming from the Debian world I wanted to ask one question. Doesn't the FC
package manager allow you to have a look at the diff of your present config
and the newconfig before the packages' installation?


rrs
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