Toshio Kuratomi <toshio(a)tiki-lounge.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:24 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> I was quite interested when I saw the announcement of conary, which solves
> this problem by allowing local changes tracked as patches.
> It occurs to me that we can get most of the benefit if rpm is
modified
> to do two things.
> 1) Don't create needless .rpmsave/.rpmnew if there is no
change
This is a bug. When I first started using rpm it followed its
documented behaviour... which is to not create these files. Recently
(and by recently I mean sometime in the RHL era :-) some packages have
begun to create rpmsave/rpmnew where the md5sum of the config files are
the same between packages.
It was mentioned that this might reflect ownership/mode changes. I would
vote for just changing those (and printing a warning) in that case, if the
file contents is the same.
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