what to do with *.rpmnew files?
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 20 14:22:04 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 16:21 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> Today I updated sendmail via yum and received a warning that
> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc was created as /etc/mail/sendmail.mc.rpmnew.
>
> (A few other files had the same warning, but they are created from the
> .mc file so I'm not too concerned.)
>
> I gather this happens because I changed the sendmail.mc file so the
> update process doesn't want to wipe out my changes.
>
> Are there any tools to compare/apply the differences between the rpmnew
> version and my current version? Or, do I have to do something like run
> diff and then go through all the changes one by one manually?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
>
I think if you use diff with the -e option you get a script that can be
used with sed to change the files to automagically.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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