Planning the Fedora 11 Mass Rebuild

[Tom Lane]

Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> writes:
> However, I don't think enough consideration was given to the upgrade
> path. As I raise on IRC, due to this change rpm will now consider *all*
> local config files to have been changed by the user and use .rpmnew
> files at upgrade time. I don't think enough consideration has been given
> to this, to the impact upon upgrade, or to the need to ensure that
> everyone doing an upgrade is aware of this.

Seems like an RPM bug to me.  Why should a hash change cause a local
config file to be considered modified?  Surely it's either identical
to the RPM's file, or not.

			regards, tom lane