John, Thanks for the correction. I definitely mixed up my words while responding here.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:54 AM, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 12:22:03 PM UTC-5, Matthaus Litteken > wrote: >> >> [...] In answer to your second question, rpmnew files are for when a >> configuration file has been changed by the user and a package update >> changes it. Because yum/rpm can't safely replace the configuration file, it >> drops an rpmnew version of the file with a diff of the updated config file >> from the package. This allows the user to manually merge in any needed >> changes (in this case the needed change is the change to the >> BOOTSTRAP_CONFIG setting). >> >> > It's at best misleading to describe .rpmnew files as containing a diff. > An x.rpmnew file is the version of x that RPM would have installed if x had > no local modifications. If you don't need to preserve the local > modifications then you can replace x with x.rpmnew. Otherwise, you can *make > your own diff* between the two to judge how to merge the changes. > > > John > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/puppet-users/8c9d7ace-dceb-4fc1-bdb7-4955543dfc0e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/8c9d7ace-dceb-4fc1-bdb7-4955543dfc0e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/CACD%3DwAd9JsZ%2BvVnBr-Uz6Hcq_QN5kiEbYqfy%3DSQ3r2oFv55Dvg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
