Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 11:36 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:17 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >> > On 1/19/06, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > It would save admins a lot of time if we modify rpm so that it does >> > > not create a .rpmnew file if there is no change from the old file. >> >> Recently happened to me with tetex >> The texmf.cnf changed - but I had already manually made the change. >> A diff between my texmf.cmf and the .rpmnew showed no differences. >> >> Does it go off of the time stamp? > > It goes off the mtime. > My proposal is to check if the contents are different (use cmp?) and not pester the sysadmin if there is no change. I believe this is a simple change and doesn't depend on multiarch, or anything else. Simple rule. If the rpm would install a config file, and iff the config file exists and is different than the one being installed, then create .rpmnew and tell human. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
