I have just installed FC4 on a new PC and ran yum update. The yum
update created 94 .rpmnew files. Most of these end with .conf.rpmnew
and the others end with /config/xxxxx.rpmnew.
I understand these to be application configuration files that were not
installed by yum because there may have been local customizations. In
normal circumstances, I should review each .rpmnew file against its
counterpart and determine if if the configuration files can be swapped
by renaming or if the .rpmnew file must first be edited. However, at
least a few of the .rpmnew files seem to be binary and I do not know the
function of each application that has an .rpmnew file.
Because this is a new installation (I have customized my monitor
settings and made a static IP address), a guess is that I just want all
the .rpmnew files installed -- and maybe the existing files renamed to
.rpmold just in case. Is there an installation option that I missed or
is there a cleanup script somewhere to deal with this problem? Would
use of smart (or apt) instead of yum have resulted in fewer problems?
Roger
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