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

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

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> sure but how is this different from al other rpm's ?

It's different because it has this bug. ;-) :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132371

You can see it here:
$ rpm -qf /etc/vimrc
vim-common-6.3.029-1.30E.3
vim-minimal-6.3.029-1.30E.3

Upstream inherited bug.

regards,
 	David

> today i installed a new server with tao
> did yum update
> and only vim-minimal wrote the config in .rpmnew
>
> shouldn't it compare the files ?
> and only save them to .rpmnew if the files are not rpm original ?
>
>> 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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