rpmnew files after upgrade. Way too much work!

[Julian Field]

At 20:27 07/07/2004, you wrote:
>Normally, I simply remove all my mailscanner files and install everthing 
>fresh. That way I don’t have rpmnew files all over the place that I need 
>to copy of the top of .conf files.
>
>Somebody suggestion to simply install new versions of mailscanner over the 
>top of the current installation but now I have rpmnew files in every 
>directory. How are you supposed to go though each and every directory, 
>including the LANGUAGE directories, and copy rpmnew over the top of .conf 
>file file directory by directory? This seems like a daunting take if you 
>ask me.
>
>If you all did was rpm –e mailscanner then saved the important files like 
>MailScanner.conf you could do a fresh install and not have to worry about 
>trying to copy every single rpmnew file over the top of its matching conf 
>file partner.
>
>Eg, I have not upgraded one language file and I have matching rpmnew files 
>which means if I don’t copy them over the top of every .conf file I could 
>be loosing new settings. So what should one do?

Have you looked at the top of the Downloads page. That little script could 
be trivially altered to do the whole of the ....../etc/reports directory as 
well. Otherwise, in the reports, just delete all the .rpmnew files except 
the languages.conf.rpmnew that you use. That one you'll have to sort out by 
hand, but it's only 1 file.
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