Re: vim-minimal updates saves /etc/vimrc.rpmnew

Bogdan Costescu <Bogdan.Costescu-hEciA7+sKtudPOQpRHQ53DeJuz7u0hKX@public.gmane.org> Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:38:58 +0100 (CET)

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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 [email protected] wrote:

> warning: /etc/vimrc created as /etc/vimrc.rpmnew

This file is marked in the SPEC as a configuration file. In order to 
preserve modifications to the original file that might have been done 
locally, the new configuration file is created with a different name. 
Therefore, if you'd have modified /etc/vimrc, even after installing 
the update, it would still use the settings that you have changed and 
not the default settings.
The files are indeed the same as they are both the original ones; if 
you'd have modified /etc/vimrc before installing the update, the 2 
files would have been different.

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Bogdan Costescu

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