Is .rpmnew new?

oldman talbotscott at cox.net
Thu Oct 20 07:00:59 UTC 2005


Vikram Goyal wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Am running fc4. While updating rpms some configuration files are saved
>as .rpmnew but looking at mod time they are old than the conf file. An
>example:
>
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8151 Oct  8 06:00 /etc/clamd.conf
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8156 Oct  3 06:51 /etc/clamd.conf.org
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8164 Sep 17 13:44 /etc/clamd.conf.rpmnew
>
>Well, I wanted to know if:
>1} .rpmnew is the conf file which should have been installed as
>   the default conf with the new/updated rpm
>
>2} OR Is it the old conf file moved as .rpmnew.
>
>If it is latter then it should be named .rpmold else the mod time should
>be newer than the old conf file.
>
>It's quite confusing.
>
>  
>
    .rpmnew is the conf file that would have been installed, but the 
.conf file is altered from standard
    .rpmsave is the .conf file that was removed for safekeeping before 
installing the new and necessary .conf file

Scott




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