Re: .rpmsave vs .rpmnew

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

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! :-)

73 de Jeff

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