Announcing yum-merge-conf, a yum plugin to merge configuration files
Miroslav Lichvar
mlichvar at redhat.com
Tue Mar 13 09:38:42 UTC 2007
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:52:42AM +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > Will it also ignore cases when the new config hasn't actually changed, and
> > silently remove the redundant copy? That would be really great.
>
> If RPM created a copy, it means something has changed. The plugin just looks
> for .rpmsave/.rpmnew files (depending if it's a %config or
> a %config(noreplace))
Unfortunately rpm creates on multiarch .rpmnew files for configs which
differ only in modification time (see #128622).
It would be nice to have an additional check implemented in the
plugin to workaround the bug.
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Miroslav Lichvar
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