Re: About creating .rpmnew files

[James Olin Oden <james oden gmail com>]

On 10/19/05, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim gunduz org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question regarding .rpmnew files.
>
> On one of my RPMs, we just added a new file , say /path/to/file, among
> installed files. I want to be sure that if that file already exists, our
> RPM will create a .rpmnew file instead of overwriting it.
>
> Could you please give me a clue?
>
Sure,

In your %files use the %config(noreplace) attribute:

    %config(noreplace) /path/to/file

...james
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