Managing .rpmnew files?
David Timms
dtimms at iinet.net.au
Mon Jun 8 13:29:35 UTC 2009
On 05/06/09 15:56, Michael Rohan wrote:
> Is there a standard way to manage the .rpmnew files created on "yum
> update"? It would seem the updates should be "merged" into the locally
> modified files when appropriate
My suggestion is to yum install meld, then
meld /etc/something.rpmnew /etc/something
This way you can see any notes that might be in the rpmnew file about
how to set new parameters, etc, and graphically pull those new elements
into your existing config file.
DaveT.
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