.rpmnew files during RPM upgrade

[John Dennis]

On 09/11/2012 07:42 AM, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Jonathan Gazeley wrote:
>> It seems to me that the "broken" behaviour is not with RPM but with
>> FreeRADIUS. Can the regular expression that includes config files and
>> modules be tweaked to exclude *.rpmnew files?
>
>    As always, patches are welcome.

O.K. I did just that. The freeradius-2.2.0 RPM's I've been pushing now 
includes a patch to ignore config filenames that should be excluded from 
being loaded. I'll send the patch to the developers list via a github 
pull request. The list is hardcoded, at the moment it excludes:

Any basename beginning with a dot (.)
Any basename beginning with a hash (i.e. pound sign, octothorp) (#)
Any basename ending with a tilde (~)
Any basename ending with the substring ".rpmsave"
Any basename ending with the substring ".rpmnew"
Any basename ending with the substring ".bak"

It also logs any files it skips which is really handy information to 
know (including files that previously were skipped for reasons like 
invalid characters in the filename).



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