If you've made changes to a configuration file that was originally
installed by RPM, your changes won't be lost if you erase the package.
Say, for example, that we've made changes to
/etc/skel/.bashrc (a config file), which was
installed as part of the
etcskel package. Later,
we remove
etcskel:
But if we take a look in
/etc/skel, look what's
there:
# ls -al
total 5
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jun 17 22:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 2048 Jun 17 19:01 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 152 Jun 17 21:54 .bashrc.rpmsave
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 13 13:18 .xfm
#
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Sure enough: .bashrc.rpmsave is a copy of your
modified .bashrc file! Remember, however, that
this feature only works with config files. Not sure how to determine
which files RPM thinks are config files? Chapter 5
will show you how.
