[Yum] Using older confi files after yum update

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 13:53 -0700, Jake Adams wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I have been searching the web and the mailing lists for an answer to
> this, but have been unable to find anything about it.
> 
> I have a config file that I have modified for my environment.  However,
> when I do a yum update it overwrites this file.  I can restore the old
> file from another machine and everything works fine.  Can I tell yum to
> not replace that one file during a yum update?
> 

Is it yum's config file? OR just a config file of some kind from some
pkg?

If it is the former - then I'm surprised.

If it is the latter then are you sure it is marked as a config file in
the rpm specfile for the owning pkg?

If not then you can mark the file %config(noreplace) which should keep
the file from being changed.

-sv