just for information, theres a tool called etc-update that helps with merging of those files. this is only recommended to the really advanced users though especially because the default settings use commandline tools to merge. its also possible though to configure it to use the graphical meld tool to diff and merge. still merging those files improperly might make your system unbootable or cause serious trouble. hands away if you are not sure what you are doing. for those interested and able to handle it... you can just rebuild the fc3 src rpm of this tool from http://newrpms.sunsite.dk -> FC3 -> SRPMS regards, Rudolf Kastl 2005/10/20, oldman <talbotscott@xxxxxxx>: > Vikram Goyal wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Am running fc4. While updating rpms some configuration files are saved > >as .rpmnew but looking at mod time they are old than the conf file. An > >example: > > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8151 Oct 8 06:00 /etc/clamd.conf > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8156 Oct 3 06:51 /etc/clamd.conf.org > >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8164 Sep 17 13:44 /etc/clamd.conf.rpmnew > > > >Well, I wanted to know if: > >1} .rpmnew is the conf file which should have been installed as > > the default conf with the new/updated rpm > > > >2} OR Is it the old conf file moved as .rpmnew. > > > >If it is latter then it should be named .rpmold else the mod time should > >be newer than the old conf file. > > > >It's quite confusing. > > > > > > > .rpmnew is the conf file that would have been installed, but the > .conf file is altered from standard > .rpmsave is the .conf file that was removed for safekeeping before > installing the new and necessary .conf file > > Scott > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
