rpmconf tool to handle rpmnew and rpmsave files What it does: - run "rpmconf --help" and you will see :) - it searches all config file of all installed packages and check if file with .rpmsave or .rpmnew exists. - It allows you to see diff of this file against current file and can do merge. - It allows you to keep current version or the other one (rpmsave or rpmnew one). - it deletes .rpmsave and .rpmnew files which are identical to current file - after your choice it deletes the unwanted file. - it can search for all orphaned rpmsave and rpmnew files. - it can dump diffs for unattended automation. I provide only .zip and .tar.gz (automagically generated by GitHub) and .src.rpm. If you are looking for .rpm files run either: yum install rpmconf - at least in Fedora and EPEL - or check: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8847 If you just want to see the difference between old and new files, run rpmconf non-interactively like this (for one package): [user@host ~]$ rpmconf -oglibc -D --- /etc/nsswitch.conf 2013-07-02 13:55:25.000000000 +0000 +++ /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew 2012-10-22 15:46:43.000000000 +0000 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ initgroups: files #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns -hosts: files dns myhostname +hosts: files dns # Example - obey only what nisplus tells us... #services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files or like this for all packages: [user@host ~]$ rpmconf -D -a | head -20 --- /etc/nsswitch.conf 2013-07-02 13:55:25.000000000 +0000 +++ /etc/nsswitch.conf.rpmnew 2012-10-22 15:46:43.000000000 +0000 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ initgroups: files #hosts: db files nisplus nis dns -hosts: files dns myhostname +hosts: files dns # Example - obey only what nisplus tells us... #services: nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files --- /usr/share/info/dir 2013-12-29 02:37:24.067000000 +0000 +++ /usr/share/info/dir.rpmnew 2013-03-21 13:20:38.000000000 +0000 @@ -15,1978 +15,8 @@ * Menu: -Archiving -* Cpio: (cpio). Copy-in-copy-out archiver to tape or disk. -* Tar: (tar). Making tape (or disk) archives. How to build package: yum install tito cd source tito build --rpm Hacking: commit your code (localy is fine) cd source tito build --test --rpm History: Originally there was no such tool for RPM world. I came from Debian world where handling of configuration files is directly in apt. Since rpm is non-interactive, such handling must be in separate tool. Therefore I started creating rpmconf, which is very similar to Debian configuration handling. I even try to copy as much as possible the frontend strings and formatting as I hope that sysadmins appreciate unified UI in Debian and Fedora. License: GPLv3 Author: Miroslav Suchy <msuchy@redhat.com>