[Fedora-packaging] Scripts around rpm

Wart wart at kobold.org
Thu Feb 22 17:20:20 UTC 2007


Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Jason L Tibbitts III schrieb:
>>>>>>> "MM" == Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:
>> MM> And further, I don't want to have to look for .rpmsave/.rpmnew
>> MM> files outside of /etc.
>>
>> Why would you look for them at all?  That's what tools are for.
>> http://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/rpmchanges
> 
> I (and probably many others) have similar scripts. I'm wondering if we
> should trow them together, put the best one into a package (¹) and ship
> them in Fedora, so people don't have to reinvent the wheel over and over
> again.

Maybe I'm just being dense, but aren't these files easily found with:

# updatedb
# locate rpmsave
# locate rpmnew

?

--Wart




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