Re: Proposal - don't install .rpmnew unless changed

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Neal Becker wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>
>
> > Neal Becker wrote:
> >
> > > It would save admins a lot of time if we modify rpm so that it does not
> > > create a .rpmnew file if there is no change from the old file.  I would
> > > think this would be a simple modification.
> >
> > It already does this, doesn't it?
>
>
> I don't think so!  I keep syncing with develop every day, and most days I
> get a bunch of messages about "blah created as .rpmnew", and every day I
> run diff, and almost always get no output.

Are you on an x86_64 box with lots of parallel-installed i386 packages?

Paul.