[5252] in testers
Re: update_ws and *.rpmnew
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Fri Jun 28 18:59:55 2002
Message-Id: <200206282259.SAA04334@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:12:36 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 18:59:52 -0400
> 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.
I believe the issue here is that the decision as to whether to create
a .rpmnew file is made sufficiently far inside rpmlib that we'd prefer
not to muck with it.
Jonathon
