Bug 144218

Summary:	rpm doesn't create .rpmnew for config files
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Lars Müller <lmuelle>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Michael Schröder <mls>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Lars Müller 2006-01-19 21:39:02 UTC

rpm no longer creates .rpmnew files for changes config files.

gab:/srv/ftp/pub/samba # rpm -V samba-client
S.5....T  c /etc/samba/smb.conf
gab:/srv/ftp/pub/samba # ls -l /etc/samba/smb.conf*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2531 2006-01-17 23:50 /etc/samba/smb.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1916 2005-03-11 18:39 /etc/samba/smb.conf.begin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1192 2006-01-19 21:53 /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmnew
gab:/srv/ftp/pub/samba # rm /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmnew 
gab:/srv/ftp/pub/samba # rpm -Fvh samba-client-3.0.21a-4.9.i586.rpm 
warning: samba-client-3.0.21a-4.9.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 414a57c3
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:samba-client           ########################################### [100%]
Updating etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp...
gab:/srv/ftp/pub/samba # rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.4.2-9
gab:/srv/ftp/pub/samba # ls -l /etc/samba/smb.conf*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2531 2006-01-17 23:50 /etc/samba/smb.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1916 2005-03-11 18:39 /etc/samba/smb.conf.begin

Comment 1 Michael Schröder 2006-01-20 11:53:44 UTC

Looks correct to me. What did you expect?

Comment 2 Lars Müller 2006-01-20 15:48:55 UTC

I expected:
   1:samba-client           warning: /etc/samba/smb.conf created as /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmnew
########################################### [100%]

But today it works again.  So invalid is right.

Comment 3 Michael Schröder 2006-01-20 19:09:05 UTC

It'll only create it if the versions in the old and new rpms contain different files. If they are the same, the changed on-disk file is left intact.