rpmconf - tool to handle rpmnew and rpmsave files

[Seth Vidal]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> Hi,
>
> from these tools only Gentoo looks to me to do the right thing - one has to do
> a 3-files merge.  Just having the old modified file and the new unmodified
> files has no solution how to do the automatic merge = how to get the new
> configuration file with all the local changes of the old file brought in.
>
> rpm should save originals of all the configuration files it installs.
> On Fedora I have to save them by hand before modifying any config file (I save
> them to <name>-orig files).  Then by hand (or by the automated attached
> script) do the diff/patch merge.
>
>

If you want to have all config files of all pkgs you're installing saved 
into a safe location it would not be a very complicated yum plugin to do 
it.

-sv