rpm -Uhv --oldpackage loses configs

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On 07.06.2016 21:26, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>> >On Jun 7, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Elan Ruusamäe<glen at pld-linux.org>  wrote:
>> >
>> >On 07.06.2016 21:07, Tomasz Pala wrote:
>>> >>On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 13:42:23 -0400, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>>> >>
>>>>> >>> >There are also better solutions than /var/spool/repackage that can be attempted these
>>>>> >>> >days.
>>> >>What are they?
>> >
>> >docker is one;)
>> >
> Many (if not most) docker images start from *.rpm content fiddled up
> through many means.
>
> docker is useless without images constructed (as a starting point) from packages.
>
> comparing docker to package management misses the point: the two tools
> solve very different problems.
point was that using docker, you will not need repackage, you just use 
previous docker image

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glen