Proposal - don't install .rpmnew unless changed

[Michael A. Peters]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 08:17 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 1/19/06, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

Recently happened to me with tetex
The texmf.cnf changed - but I had already manually made the change.
A diff between my texmf.cmf and the .rpmnew showed no differences.

Does it go off of the time stamp?