Proposal - don't install .rpmnew unless changed
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jan 19 13:14:46 UTC 2006
Neal Becker wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>Neal Becker wrote:
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>>>It would save admins a lot of time if we modify rpm so that it does not
>>>create a .rpmnew file if there is no change from the old file. I would
>>>think this would be a simple modification.
>>
>>It already does this, doesn't it?
>>
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> I don't think so! I keep syncing with develop every day, and most days I
> get a bunch of messages about "blah created as .rpmnew", and every day I
> run diff, and almost always get no output.
Are you on an x86_64 box with lots of parallel-installed i386 packages?
Paul.
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