John, Thanks for the correction. I definitely mixed up my words while responding here.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 5:54 AM, jcbollinger <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. 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.
