Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ian Forde wrote on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:01:21 -0800: > >> locate rpmsave >> locate rpmnew > > rpmsave is left from *un*installations, rpmnew is the *new* file, there is > no file overwritten. rpm usually doesn't overwrite files if they got > changed. AFAIK this is not correct, a package upgrade can create either of these (or both, or neither of them despite your having edited a file). And that's the way it should be, either choice can be justified. It depends on the package's SPEC file. rpm just does what it's told, everything is in the hands of the package maintainer.