On 12/23/2011 02:08 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
"yum reinstall" doe snot exactly the same
than remove/install which is good if you want to reinstall a
package because something ha messed up binary files
Thank you; that's what I wanted to find out.
but it handles config files totally different
"yum reinstall" will never touch them and not
create rpmnew/rpmsave files!
You mean that it won't replace a completely missing config file? That's
one thing I'd expect it to check for.