Proposal - don't install .rpmnew unless changed

[Paul Howarth]

Neal Becker wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>Neal Becker 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.  I would
>>>think this would be a simple modification.
>>
>>It already does this, doesn't it?
>>
> 
> 
> I don't think so!  I keep syncing with develop every day, and most days I
> get a bunch of messages about "blah created as .rpmnew", and every day I
> run diff, and almost always get no output.

Are you on an x86_64 box with lots of parallel-installed i386 packages?

Paul.