--On Friday, June 05, 2020 1:39 PM -0700 John Pierce <jhn.pierce at gmail.com> wrote: > don't most packages create a .rpmnew file if you've modified the previous > package file ? That file is created AFTER you've made edits, and reflects only the state of the file in the latest package. So it's not clear what changed from the original package that needs to be migrated into one's current settings. As a rule I try to copy the original files to xxx.original so I can compare that to both the .rpmnew file and my working file. But I or another admin might forget to save the original. So I end up going the cpio route to extract the original files to a temp tree to do the 3-way comparison between the original, my modifications, and the latest package's modifications.