On Sunday 28 April 2002 01:38 pm, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 02:17:24PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Why are .rpmnew files created?
>
> I just want to add an <AOL>Me too</AOL> to that question.
>
> Very annoying to have to go and upgrade all of the config files by
> hand!

Take a look at the etc-update RPM (comes with Mandrake 8.2, at least!). 
It will let you either interactively or non-interactively merge/replace 
your config files with the appropriate .rpmnew version.

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