13 Feb
2005
13 Feb
'05
4:35 p.m.
Patrick Useldinger wrote:
During the update, I wondered how other distros handle
this. I'd be
surprised if you had to go through all this with a SuSE or Fedora, for
example. And I caught myself thinking, "the next machine will be a
Macintosh...".
SuSE keeps the configuration in a central repository. Everytime you
change something in Yast, SUSEconfig recreates all the configuration
files. Older SuSE versions did overwrite your manual changes (in
/etc/hosts for example). Newer versions simply do leave "hacked config"
files unchanged. I suppose that during an update SuSE keeps its central
repository and recreates all config files with the data contained in the
central repository. Maybe I am wrong, SuSE users should correct me!
Greetings, Patrick Kaell