On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 05:19 -0700, Roger wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 15:13 -0700, Roger wrote: > > > >> I have just installed FC4 on a new PC and ran yum update. The yum > >> update created 94 .rpmnew files. Most of these end with .conf.rpmnew > >> and the others end with /config/xxxxx.rpmnew. > >> > >> I understand these to be application configuration files that were not > >> installed by yum because there may have been local customizations. In > >> normal circumstances, I should review each .rpmnew file against its > >> counterpart and determine if if the configuration files can be swapped > >> by renaming or if the .rpmnew file must first be edited. However, at > >> least a few of the .rpmnew files seem to be binary and I do not know the > >> function of each application that has an .rpmnew file. > >> > >> Because this is a new installation (I have customized my monitor > >> settings and made a static IP address), a guess is that I just want all > >> the .rpmnew files installed -- and maybe the existing files renamed to > >> .rpmold just in case. Is there an installation option that I missed or > >> is there a cleanup script somewhere to deal with this problem? Would > >> use of smart (or apt) instead of yum have resulted in fewer problems? > >> > > > > Are you by any chance using x86_64 and are many of these files > > associated with packages that you have both .x86_64 and .i386 versions > > installed? A common cause of spurious .rpmnew file generation is when > > multiple packages own the same config file (as is the case described > > above, and also for example /etc/vimrc). > > > > Paul. > > > > > Yes, I am using x86_64 and the rpmnew files seem to be consistent with > packages that have .i386 versions. I tried removing a few > (alsa-lib.i386, apr.i386, and SDL.i386) and yum showed no dependencies > and removed them. When I entered a remove command for the x86_64 > counterparts, yum showed many dependencies so I did not remove them. > > So now the question is why do I have these .386 versions and is it a > good idea to remove them all? I suspect they were installed by anaconda but other than that I can't say much; I don't currently have an x86_64 box myself so I'm not up on the gory details of what's needed and what's not. > I should note that I am trying to install MythTV and after the initial > yum update I added atrpms as a yum repository. atrpms seems to be a bit > flakey (sometimes there and sometimes not), but I think all the rpmnew > files predated my adding atrpms as a repository. I could do a clean > install again to verify that as I am having trouble getting lirc to > install correctly. What problems are you having exactly? Paul.
