I'm not surprised. If there's one thing that I'd say Red Hat should do to improve their immediate user experience is launch an effort to make certain their documentation is current and complete. I'd be willing to work on it for them if they'd hire me! RPM is an awesome tool (despite a handful of protests from people who don't truly understand it's purpose, they love to compare/contrast it to apt-get, which is designed to do more of what yum does), but in my opinion there should be direct link to the product's manual off the documentation home page. Nevertheless--your question is now answered! Good Luck, DP On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 15:30 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Alas it doesn't. In fact, there's very little on configuration files, > and nothing on .rpmnew files in particular. > > Hmmm: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2003-May/msg00426.html > > > Quoting: > > > >The .rpmnew suffix is added if a file to be installed is marked with > >"%config(noreplace)" and the local file is modified wrto the original > >md5sum. Basically the incoming file is installed as "foo.rpmnew" rather > >than "foo". > > > > [...] > > >Note that more than md5sum is involved, there's also mtime, user, group, > >perms, and other stat(2) info that is involved in detecting "modified". > > > > and that's what I suspected... except that doing a "diff -c" shows the > files to be identical. Therefore, their MD5 should be identical too, > unless it's not being calculated or stored correctly. And "ls -l" shows > the permissions and dates to be identical as well (except for maybe > seconds which aren't shown by "ls -l"). > > And st_atime and st_ctime should be ignored... > > So I'm stumped. > > -Philip > > > David-Paul Niner wrote: > > >man rpm > > > >will (most likely) explain why those files are there; that's a design > >feature of rpm, it's trying to protect your configuration files. > > > >DP > > > > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- David-Paul Niner, RHCE Jacksonville, Florida, USA dpniner@xxxxxxxxxxx :: http://www.dpniner.net Public Key: http://www.dpniner.net/files/Gnupg/DpninerDotNetPubKey.text Free/Busy Information: https://horde.dpniner.net/kronolith/fb.php?u=dpniner
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