Re: prevent rpm from stomping permissions of specific files?

[bob proulx com (Bob Proulx)]

Dan Hollis wrote:
> How can I prevent rpm from stomping permissions of site-specific config 
> files in /etc ? I'd like to mark specific files that rpm is not allowed to 
> mangle, because the permissions of an /etc config file got stomped in a 
> recent yum update and broke a production server.

As far as I know this is not possible.

The best I can suggest is to run 'find' looking for .rpmsave files and
then merging the changes manually and updating.

Bob