Re: About creating .rpmnew files

[Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim gunduz org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, James Olin Oden wrote:

> > 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

Thanks a lot. That did it.

BTW, While looking for details for noreplace, I found another macro:

%ghost

What's that exactly?

Regards,

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