On one, but only one, of our F7 machines yum update often pauses with some such query as this :
Package nss_ldap: merging configuration for file "/etc/ldap.conf": By default, RPM would keep your local version and rename the new one to / etc/ldap.conf.rpmnew What do you want to do ? - diff the two versions (d) - do the default RPM action (q) - install the package's version (i) - merge interactively with vim (v) - background this process and examine manually (z) Your answer ?
My default has usually been q, figuring the hotshots would pick the safest thing as the default. Is that so? Should I be moving old files to backups and .rpmnew files to current according to any particular criteria? Is there any way of doing it in mass that's safe? The things must be piling up, and in places I have no knowledge of ...