Re: .rpmsave vs .rpmnew

[Alan Eldridge <alane geeksrus net>]

>On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:02:21AM -0400, Alan Eldridge wrote:
>> What controls whether an existing noreplace config file is renamed to
>> .rpmsave, or the new one is created as .rpmnew? I wish to force the latter
>> behavior.
>
>A .rpmnew extension is added if the MD5 sum of the file on disk is different
>than the file in the new package, and the file is marked
>	%config(noreplace)
>
>So, the only way to "force" the behavior is to modify the file on disk.
>Good luck! :-)

So I have a config file I have changed. I install the new rpm. My config
file gets renamed to .rpmsave. My configuration is no longer in place. This
contradicts the behavior you described.

The file is marked (noreplace).



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Alan Eldridge
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