On 16/08/2019 15.53, simonizor wrote:
On Friday, August 16, 2019 8:45:31 AM CDT, simonizor wrote:
If you read the rationale: this helps us on all kind of updates, even plain ones with RPM. We had in the last months again enough problems/bug reports of not working/insecure systems, since users/admins ignored *.rpmsave and *.rpmnew files and did not merge the configuration files after an update. This proposal should help with this and make the user experience on updates much better.
How does this solve that? I can still place a configuration file in /etc with this proposal and ignore *.rpmsave and *.rpmnew.
Also, I am totally one of the people that ignores these files. Why? There's little to no notification that they have been created, nothing telling me what changes have been made, etc. By the time I realize they're even there, months could have passed since they were created.
There was a service that run on boot that searched for those files and told the admin, but it has been removed. I think that going back more years, it emailed root as well. Now, you have to run "rpmconfigcheck" manually. I documented this on the wiki. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)