On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 06:55 +0100, Remco Barendse wrote:

Hi list!

After yum upgrade of my CentOS 4.0 to 4.2 x86_64 box I now have countless .rpmsave files, about 90% of them I never touched or are config/start scripts.

Does anyone have a neat script that will find all the rpmsave stuff in /etc and then prompts per file whether it can replace the original or not?

Somehow doing this all by hand doesn't seem a very attractive idea :)

Wouldn't say I'd recommend it without carefully checking differences first, but just for grins came up with the following:

Create /root/bin/rplc as follows:

#!/bin/bash if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo $"usage: `basename $0` filename.rpmsave" exit 1 fi

DIRNAME=`dirname $1` BASENAME=`basename $1 .rpmsave` ORIG=$DIRNAME/$BASENAME

if [ -r "$ORIG" ]; then mv -i $ORIG $1 fi

Then execute:

# chmod +x /root/bin/rplc # find /etc -name "*.rpmsave" -exec /root/bin/rplc {} ;

The script should also check that the input path exists, is a file, and contains ".rpmsave" (and the find command could be in the script and use xargs with a function or something), but the above works and those details are left as an exercise for the student. :-)

Phil