[Box Backup] BoxBackup 0,08 SUSE Linux packages

[Ben Summers]

On 1 Oct 2004, at 21:00, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 02:20, Chris Smith wrote:
>> Okay, I've changed that. I've added the symlink for the /usr/sbin/rc* 
>> . About
>> the insserv calls, as far as I can tell chkconfig in SUSE is a 
>> frontend to
>> insserv and it seems to work fine here so we can probably leave it as 
>> it is.
>
> Ok, that makes sense.
>
>> Attached is the .spec patch (-u) and the updated SUSE init scripts a 
>> bit
>> cleaned up and working.
>
> I've made a few more tweaks, including moving most of the exes to
> /usr/sbin where they belong. Hopefully now we're fully working on both
> platforms.
>
>> BUG: I get this when uninstalling the client:
>> "warning: /etc/init.d/bbackupd saved as /etc/init.d/bbackupd.rpmsave"
>> It's leaving junk in the filesystem, but I'm quite inexperienced with 
>> RPM, is
>> there another directive you can use for  that file?
>
> No, that's normal RPM behaviour. When you upgrade a package it may
> rename config files to .rpmsave if they have been changed, or it may
> create the new file as .rpmnew (depending on the config file and 
> whether
> there are possible incompatible changes).
>
> When you uninstall an rpm it is normal for any edited config files to 
> be
> renamed to .rpmsave. It's not a sophisticated system, but it tells you
> it's doing it and it does work.
>
> If you do a big upgrade (lots of packages) you should always check for
> .rpmsave (and .rpmnew) files afterwards.
>
> Complete updated patch (as before) included. If it's ok then Ben can
> commit this one.

Does this work under SUSE as well as RedHat? I haven't committed the 
change yet. Thanks.

Ben