tool to handle rpmnew and rpmsave files
What it does:
- run "rpmconf --help" and you will see :)
- it searches all config file of all installed packages and check if file with .rpmsave or .rpmnew exists.
- It allows you to see diff of this file against current file and can do merge.
- It allows you to keep current version or the other one (rpmsave or rpmnew one).
- it deletes .rpmsave and .rpmnew files which are identical to current file
- after your choice it deletes the unwanted file.
- it can search for all orphaned rpmsave and rpmnew files.
- it can dump diffs for unattended automation.
I provide only .zip and .tar.gz (automagically generated by GitHub) and .src.rpm. If you are looking for .rpm files run either: dnf install rpmconf
- at least in Fedora and EPEL - or check: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8847
If you just want to see the difference between old and new files, run rpmconf non-interactively like this (for one package):
[user@host ~]$ rpmconf -oglibc -D
--- /etc/nsswitch.conf 2013-07-02 13:55:25.000000000 +0000
+++ /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew 2012-10-22 15:46:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
initgroups: files
#hosts: db files nisplus nis dns
-hosts: files dns myhostname
+hosts: files dns
# Example - obey only what nisplus tells us...
#services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
or like this for all packages:
[user@host ~]$ rpmconf -D -a | head -20
--- /etc/nsswitch.conf 2013-07-02 13:55:25.000000000 +0000
+++ /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew 2012-10-22 15:46:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
initgroups: files
#hosts: db files nisplus nis dns
-hosts: files dns myhostname
+hosts: files dns
# Example - obey only what nisplus tells us...
#services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
--- /usr/share/info/dir 2013-12-29 02:37:24.067000000 +0000
+++ /usr/share/info/dir.rpmnew 2013-03-21 13:20:38.000000000 +0000
@@ -15,1978 +15,8 @@
* Menu:
-Archiving
-* Cpio: (cpio). Copy-in-copy-out archiver to tape or disk.
-* Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives.
yum install tito
cd source
tito build --rpm
commit your code (localy is fine)
cd source
tito build --test --rpm
Originally there was no such tool for RPM world. I came from Debian world where handling of configuration files is directly in apt. Since rpm is non-interactive, such handling must be in separate tool. Therefore I started creating rpmconf, which is very similar to Debian configuration handling. I even try to copy as much as possible the frontend strings and formatting as I hope that sysadmins appreciate unified UI in Debian and Fedora.
This project is sponsored by Red Hat. You can buy Red Hat subscription to sponsor this project.
GPL-3.0-only
Miroslav Suchý msuchy@redhat.com