#6700 LOW Never A: allow an option to not overwrite root's home directory on upgrade

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#6700: allow an option to not overwrite root's home directory on upgrade
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 Reporter:  hhardy           |       Owner:  cscott        
     Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  low              |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  upgrade utility  |     Version:                
 Keywords:                   |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:                   |   Blockedby:                
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 It would be helpful for school administrators & "power users" if the
 contents of root's home directory and in particular .bash_history could be
 flagged such that it would not get nuked on upgrades. It would also be
 helpful if the list of installed rpm packages could be maintained through
 an upgrade. Not necessarily the rpm's themselves but a list of the rpm's
 in the order they were previously installed/deinstalled so the system
 could be more easily restored to a similar state to what it was pre-
 upgrade.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6700>
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