Denis Solovyov wrote:
>>>I  have NEVER seen any *.rpmnew. For example, a week or so ago there was
>>>a  postfix-conf  upgrade.  I  don't  use  postfix, but keep the packages
>>>installed.  All  files  in /etc/postfix was silently overwritten without
>>>any *.rpmnew.
> 
> MS> RPM checks md5, not time.  Since you never modified the default postfix
> MS> configs, they were replaced with the new default configs.
> 
> Vidar Tyldum Hansen said before that there was no md5 checking...

Of the binary files. I beleieve the checks are done on files where RPM
has to evaluate whether to overwrite or not.

> MS> If the md5 fingerprint of the old configuration is the same as was
> MS> installed with the outgoing package, then there were no modifications to 
> MS> the old default configuration file.
> MS> The upgrade package will replace an old default unmodified config with
> MS> the new default config file.  If the old config md5 does not match that 
> MS> of the old package installation, then you will see .rpmnew written 
> MS> during the upgrade.  Timestamp does not affect md5:
> 
> That's it!  That is what I'm trying to say! I do NOT want swup to modify
> my old (unmodified or at least "touched", i.e. with mtime or permissions
> changed be me) default config to new default config. Is there any way to
> "ask" swup to use such behaviour as I wish? (Or whom do I need to ask to
> think about implementation of such behaviour in swup?)

One way would be for you to add a comment in the config file or add some
whitespace.

I am still wondering if the reason you want this feature is either
because of a bug in a package or misconfiguration. Do share with us the
exact problems this is causing you.

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