Re: what to do with *.rpmnew files?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 16:21 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> Today I updated sendmail via yum and received a warning that 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc was created as /etc/mail/sendmail.mc.rpmnew.
> 
> (A few other files had the same warning, but they are created from the 
> .mc file so I'm not too concerned.)
> 
> I gather this happens because I changed the sendmail.mc file so the 
> update process doesn't want to wipe out my changes.
> 
> Are there any tools to compare/apply the differences between the rpmnew 
> version and my current version? Or, do I have to do something like run 
> diff and then go through all the changes one by one manually?
> 
> Thanks,
> Don
> 
> 
I think if you use diff with the -e option you get a script that can be
used with sed to change the files to automagically.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>