Should I disable the old updates repo?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 15:44:32 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 20:47 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > I updated using "yum update" and some repo files were left untouched
> > while .rpmnew versions appeared in /etc/yum.repo.d. I moved them into
> > place by hand (having backed up the old ones of course). Seemed to work.
> 
> If you have edited the files by hand, rpm updates won't overwrite the 
> configuration files usually and instead create .rpmnew files which gives 
> the user a chance to manually review and adopt the changes.

I realize that, I wasn't complaining :-)

poc




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