[Yum] yum 1.0.3 and sendmail from RHEL 3 Update 2

[Michael Stenner]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 01:33:18PM -0700, Enice Eugene Bradley wrote:
> Recently, I upgraded a Dell 2650 server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
> (RHEL) 3 Update 1 to RHEL 3 Update 2 via yum 1.0.3.
> 
> Upon reboot, however, I found that /usr/lib/sendmail was renamed to 
> /usr/lib/sendmail.sendmail.  This caused some cron jobs
> that utilize sendmail to break; I resolved by relinking the rogue link 
> back to /usr/lib/sendmail.
> 
> Does this issue have anything to do with yum, the sendmail RPM on RHEL 3 
> Update 2, or the version of RPM in use on the server before the upgrade 
> (rpm-4.0.4-7x.20.i386.rpm)?  I checked yum's Bugzilla database but found 
> nothing on RHEL or any issues regarding updates or (in my case) upgrades 
> via yum 1.0.3.

It's virtually impossible for this to be a yum bug.  Yum does not
directly muck with any files other than those in /var/cache/yum and
the bootloader stuff.  This could be an rpm issue, but I find it more
likely to be a buggy package.

					-Michael
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