Opened 16 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#4212 closed defect (fixed)
rpm upgrade removes files
| Reported by: | Alex Barker | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 2.2.4 |
| Keywords: | rpm delete init.d | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
When upgrading vbox to the latest version I found out the hard way that the rpm removes files that do not belong to it.
Basically I created a init.d script called virtualbox to start virtual servers on boot as virtualbox does not ship with anything to accomplish this task. After upgrading from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 and bringing the virtual servers back up I noticed that the script I created was gone. Upon further inspection I found the following code block:
if [ -f /etc/init.d/virtualbox ]; then
echo "Found old version of /etc/init.d/virtualbox, removing." rm /etc/init.d/virtualbox [ -f /sbin/rcvirtualbox ] && rm -f /sbin/rcvirtualbox
fi
I am not sure what the rational for this was but shouldn't old versions of the rpm be responsible for cleaning up after them selves? Is this an RPM short fall? Can you AT LEAST backup files your planning on removing that don't belong to your package?
Removed in SVN. Actually this was a fix for old broken packages.