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[Tom London]

On 11/9/06, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 07:05:25AM -0800, Tom London wrote:
> > On 11/9/06, buildsys at redhat.com <buildsys at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >gdm-1:2.17.2-1.fc7
> > >------------------
> > >* Tue Nov 07 2006 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 1:2.17.2-1
> > >- Update to 2.17.2
> > >
> > This update 'saved' my /etc/pam.d/gdm in /etc/pam.d/gdm.rpmsave, but
> > failed to create a new /etc/pam.d/gdm. This made gdmgreeter very
> > unhappy.
>
> Isn't this, by any chance, yet another hit by yum which in some
> circumstances instead of updating a package first removes it, thus
> saving various configuration file with an .rpmsave suffix, and
> later installs a new version but is careful enough not to clobber
> the same configurations which were saved?  There were hits of that
> with 'initscripts', for example, and this ends up with
> /etc/inittab renamed to /etc/inittab.rpmsave, which makes booting
> somewhat "inconvenient", :-) and other examples of a less dramatic
> nature.
>
> There was a bug report opened for that but, unfortunately, somehow I
> cannot find it right now.  Anybody with a reference?  One of troubles
> is that apparently nobody knows how to reproduce that at will.
> I certainly failed when I tried.
>
>   Michal
>
In fact, yum did first 'remove' gdm (the rpmsave was created during
the remove of gdm):

Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
warning: /etc/pam.d/gdm saved as /etc/pam.d/gdm.rpmsave
  Removing  : gdm                          ######################### [1/2]
Updating  : gdm                                                    [2/2]
Updated: gdm.i386 1:2.17.2-1.fc7
Complete!

Sounds similar to 196590.....
-- 
Tom London