On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Ralf Corsepius (rc040203@freenet.de) said:
Perhaps it become clearer if we find such a package and discuss what we'd like an upgrade to perform.
E.g. customizing/fixing init priorities,
There are overrides for this in rawhide. See the latest chkconfig package.
buggy init-scripts with local bug-fixes applied, ...
That could apply to *anything*, whether it be /usr/bin/find or /etc/init.d/sshd.
Yes, ... if you want to drive this to extremes, one could argue this to be a missing feature in rpm.
Special-casing something just because it happens to be shell seems misguided.
Whether this is special casing depends on your view "/etc ... /etc/ == configuration" == no special casing.
Apart of this, a system is not unlikely not to boot up anymore or at least not to work properly anymore when an update reverts a local bug fix/customization.
Ralf