warnings on todays tetex update

[Yuan Yijun]

2007/8/11, Joe Smith <jes at martnet.com>:
> Got a bunch of warnings like this:
> warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdvips/psfonts_jp.map created as
> /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdvips/psfonts_jp.map.rpmnew
>
> during today's update to tetex-dvips.i386 0:3.0-40.1.fc7
>
> All the .rpmnew files are identical to the existing .map files.
>
> Anyone know why this popped up? Any reason no to just remove the .rpmnew
> files?
>
> I do see that the .map files belong to two packages:
> $ rpm -qf /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdvips/psfonts_jp.map
> tetex-fonts-3.0-40.1.fc7
> tetex-dvips-3.0-40.1.fc7
>
> <Joe
>

Because they come from the same source but is copied without "-p" or
"-a" param, so the time stamp changed. A file is considered different
if it has different time stamp, and this time stamp is stored in RPM
database in order to verify system's integrity. That's it.


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