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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] Tumbleweed update to 20200201 removed /etc/services
From:       "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2020-02-23 11:54:15
Message-ID: d4ddb11b-e0d9-23c6-f9b5-be82a0c1b1e1 () telefonica ! net
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On 22/02/2020 23.45, Bernard Lang wrote:
> * Knurpht-openSUSE <>, le 22-02-20, a écrit:
>> Looks like, like me, you never changed the packaged default file, in which
>> case it's safe to go:
>> cp /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch,.conf.`date +%F`
>> cp /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew /etc/nsswitch.conf
>>
> 
> Thanks for all answers.  They seem to suggest that I should consider that
> my /etc/nsswitch.conf was never edited, and that I should therefore simply
> replace it by the file nsswitch.conf.rpmnew, as explained, e.g., in "Dealing
> with .rpmnew and .rpmsave files" located at
> https://www.linux.com/news/dealing-rpmnew-and-rpmsave-files/
> 
> However the info in my post shows a third file, nsswitch.confbak
> with a date older than nsswitch.conf and nsswitch.conf.rpmnew
> 
> Though I did not do any editing myself, I have to assume that some
> modification must have been done by/for some piece of software ... hopefully
> for a good reason, renaming the original file nsswitch.confbak, and keeping
> the modified file as nsswitch.conf.

Maybe YaST :-?

...

> It is not unfrequent that a configuration created by une user has to be later
> maintained by another one, who does not know everything about it. This should
> be supported (not a criticism of SUSE).

So you write comments explaining each change you do. You can not force 
others to do the same... unfortunately >:-)

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)


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