[Yum-devel] Bad interaction of yum-cron and yum-merge-conf

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 10:50:12 UTC 2007


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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:33:52 -0400

/etc/cron.daily/yum.cron:


Package dovecot: merging configuration for file "/etc/dovecot.conf":
By default, RPM would keep your local version and rename the new one 
to /etc/dovecot.conf.rpmnew
What do you want to do ?
 - diff the two versions (d)
 - do the default RPM action (q)
 - install the package's version (i)
 - merge interactively with vim (v)
 - background this process and examine manually (z)
Your answer ? Unknown answer, please try again
By default, RPM would keep your local version and rename the new one 
to /etc/dovecot.conf.rpmnew
What do you want to do ?
 - diff the two versions (d)
 - do the default RPM action (q)
 - install the package's version (i)
 - merge interactively with vim (v)
 - background this process and examine manually (z)
Your answer ? Unknown answer, please try again
[... repeat forever...]



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