Dealing with 94 rpmnew files on new FC4 install after yum update
Roger
crosseyedpenguin at cox.net
Fri May 5 12:19:16 UTC 2006
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 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.
Roger
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