[fpc-pascal] upgrading fpc rpm removes fpc.cfg

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Thu Mar 17 12:49:47 CET 2011


On 17 Mar 2011, at 12:20, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> I just installed on a fresh Linux Fedora 14 the fpc rpm via yum, which
> installed fpc 2.4.0.
> Then I downloaded from www.freepascal.org the rpm for fpc 2.4.2 and
> installed it via upgrade function (rpm -Uvh fpc-2.4.2-1.i686.rpm).
> To my surprise this renamed the /etc/fpc.cfg to /etc/fpc.cfg.orig

That is normal.

> and
> did *not* install a new fpc.cfg, thus no unit can be found.

This is not.

> Is this known?

I haven't seen any bug reports about this, which is quite strange  
since FPC 2.4.2 has been available for quite a while already.


Jonas



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