I had a working ejabberd 1.1.1 installation running on Fedora Core, which I had installed using the binary linux installer. I didn't realize that it registers itself into the rpm package manager.
The system hadn't been updated in a while and I asked the sys admin to run 'up2date' to update all the latest packages.
It installed Fedora's ejabberd 1.1.2-2 package, which is installed in a different location (/usr/local, some stuff in /var and /etc/ejabberd). However it still overwrote my startup script and deleted the ejabberd.conf file and *.beam files from my working installation. I assume it thought it was uninstalling the previous version. I had hand-placed come custom .beam files from a that I compiled from a patched 1.1.1 src tree (adding http-bind functionality).
So I'm now restoring from backup and added 'ejabberd*' to the up2date skiplist.
-James
Hello, Next version of the
Hello,
Next version of the installer will no more register in the RPM database.
Thank you for letting us know about this problem.
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Mickaël Rémond