[5246] in testers
update_ws and *.rpmnew
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Jun 26 07:12:39 2002
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:12:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: <testers@mit.edu>
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Hello,
When I updated my athena-linux machine from 9.0 to 9.1, I noticed many
warnings where rpm created a file as foo.rpmnew. In the end I ended
up with about 30 *.rpmnew files scattered around my disk, and glancing
at other athena-linux 9.1 machines shows that other machines have the
same issue.
Many of the files are the type of file that a could have been tweaked
by a machine's administrator, so it's reasonable for RPM to preserve
the existing content.
But also:
Many of these files configure things, and the new versions have
bugfixes or tweaks or enhancements to how they are set up. There are
change to the X fonts, to pam.d/system-auth, to syslogging options,
and other miscellanous oddities. Is it safe to put off updating
these files forever? (I don't know.)
Perhaps it's possible to detect if a configuration file has been
modified by a user, and then freely replace the files that have not
been modified? That would trim the list of *.rpmnew files from 30
down to about 5, and those 5 would be ones that the user definitely
cares about, since she already edited them once.
-Jake
I'll include an example list of *.rpmnew files; I imagine there could
be slight variations from machine to machine, but I haven't tried to
confirm any variation.
/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.rpmnew
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/fonts.dir.rpmnew
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/fonts.scale.rpmnew
/usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf.rpmnew
/etc/X11/fs/config.rpmnew
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/xinput.rpmnew
/etc/X11/XF86Config.rpmnew
/etc/X11/XftConfig.rpmnew
/etc/rc.d/rc.local.rpmnew
/etc/sysconfig/init.rpmnew
/etc/sysconfig/arpwatch.rpmnew
/etc/sysconfig/apmd.rpmnew
/etc/sysconfig/syslog.rpmnew
/etc/sysconfig/kudzu.rpmnew
/etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew
/etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts.rpmnew
/etc/pcmcia/serial.opts.rpmnew
/etc/passwd.rpmnew
/etc/xinetd.d/tftp.rpmnew
/etc/ld.so.conf.rpmnew
/etc/syslog.conf.rpmnew
/etc/group.rpmnew
/etc/csh.cshrc.rpmnew
/etc/bashrc.rpmnew
/etc/csh.login.rpmnew
/etc/filesystems.rpmnew
/etc/profile.rpmnew
/etc/shells.rpmnew
/etc/sysctl.conf.rpmnew
/etc/logrotate.conf.rpmnew
/var/lib/logrotate.status.rpmnew
