Announcing yum-merge-conf, a yum plugin to merge configuration files

[Aurelien Bompard]

Neal Becker wrote:
> This sounds great!  I haven't looked at the code yet.

It's pretty trivial, you'll see

> Will it also ignore cases when the new config hasn't actually changed, and
> silently remove the redundant copy?  That would be really great.

If RPM created a copy, it means something has changed. The plugin just looks
for .rpmsave/.rpmnew files (depending if it's a %config or
a %config(noreplace))

Aurélien
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