On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:30 +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
I've been tired for some time of watching rpmnew and rpmsave files. I've been looking for some tool, but did not find any, so I wrote my own.
http://miroslav.suchy.cz/fedora/rpmconf/rpmconf
Before I spend more times on this script, I would like to hear your opinion. Do you find it useful? Did it already exists and I miss it in my search?
http://learn.clemsonlinux.org/wiki/Gentoo:etc-update
That's etc-update, originates from Gentoo, and handles rpmnew/rpmsave files (I think it just matches any filenames in /etc that look to be variants of each other).
Mandriva has rather simple handling of these files in its graphical package manager, rpmdrake:
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/soft/rpmdrake/trunk/Rpmdrake/rpmn...
it more or less just shows you a diff between the old and new configs, and asks which you'd like to use. No editing / reconciliation is possible. And it's in perl. =)
There may be others, but those are the ones that spring to mind.
(btw, if anyone's wondering why there's always a blank line above my sig now, this appears to be a 'feature' of Evolution in Rawhide...it includes a blank line before the separator in the signature block).