Re: [CentOS] rpmnew puzzles

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com wrote:

I'm puzzled by such statements as

diff /var/clamav/daily.cvd /var/clamav/daily.cvd.rpmnew Binary files /var/clamav/daily.cvd and /var/clamav/daily.cvd.rpmnew differ

I thought the point of rpmnew files was so that we could check what has been changed?

You can check to see what has been changed, since you have both versions, but you should use a tool that can compare binary files (if that makes any sense to you).

In your case, you can safely delete daily.cvd.rpmnew, because, most probable, freshclam already updated daily.cvd to a newer version.