TETEX font map - .newrpm

[SlowJet]

The updates for TETEX packages created a .newrpm file for all the font maps.
This is ridicules as only about .000001% of the users would know what needed to be looked at and changed. It will take hours.

Can I remove these with nodeps and reinstall without disturbing some other part of the system, like scripts, /etc, ?



Updating : tetex-fonts ####################### [ 2/18]
Updating : tetex ####################### [ 3/18]
Updating : tetex-dvips ############### [ 4/18]warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antp/antp.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antp/antp.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/cork-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/cork-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/cs-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/cs-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/exp-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/exp-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/greek-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/greek-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/qx-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/qx-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/t2a-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/t2a-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/t2b-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/t2b-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/t2c-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/t2c-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/t5-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/t5-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/texnansi-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/texnansi-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/wncy-antt.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/antt/wncy-antt.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/cc-pl/ccpl.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/cc-pl/ccpl.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/8r-base.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/8r-base.map.rpmnew
Updating : tetex-dvips ################ [ 4/18]warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/context-base.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/context-base.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/cork-public-lm.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/cork-public-lm.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/cork-var-exclusive-public-lm.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/cork-var-exclusive-public-lm.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/cork-var-public-lm.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/cork-var-public-lm.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-base.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-base.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-public-lm.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-public-lm.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-var-exclusive-public-lm.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-var-exclusive-public-lm.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-var-public-lm.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/ec-var-public-lm.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-adobe-euro.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-adobe-euro.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-ams-cmr.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-ams-cmr.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-ams-euler.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-ams-euler.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-base.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-base.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-context-symbol.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-context-symbol.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-dummy.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-dummy.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-empty.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-empty.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-micropress-informal.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-micropress-informal.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-public-csr.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-public-csr.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-public-lm.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-public-lm.map.rpmnew
Updating : tetex-dvips ################# [ 4/18]warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-public-plr.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-public-plr.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-public-vnr.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-public-vnr.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-vogel-symbol.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-vogel-symbol.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-youngryu-px.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-youngryu-px.map.rpmnew
warning: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-youngryu-tx.map created as /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/context/original-youngryu-tx.map.rpmnew

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[marcrblevins]

I was wondering about that too. Is the rpmnew file suppose to replace the original manually?

[SlowJet]

Yes, but not all newrpm files can be treated the same, as you may want to keep a custom file, or only part of the new, or none, or merge.

This could be handled logically with org, curr, sav, new and some diff, cart/horse/chicken/egg logic in a script or program or the RPM system.
It could save ten's of thousand from having to do anything, and those that did can get the newest changes with their custom saved. (They could cp it back, merge, or replace.

Anyway, this came out of the blue from updates and was never in updates-testing.
Should not have happened.

I did a yum remove on the main tetex packag names and there was only 1 or 2 deps so I let it run.
Then I yum installed all 6 at once.
Spot checked the map to map.newrpms and they seem to be created today and are the same sixe.
This means the yum remove didn't even totoal remove (old) newrpm's.
But it was 100 times faster that cd, cat,cat, diff, gedit, save mynew, cp mynew to map, rm newrpm, rm mynew in very/long/path/names for 200 times.

SJ

[RupertPupkin]

I created this little script to clean up the changes. It removes the .rpmnew file if no difference with the old file exists, keeps it otherwise. It logs the action taken in tetexnew.log.

#!/bin/bash
NEW_FILE="tetex.new"
NUM_REMOVED=0
NUM_KEPT=0
LOG_FILE="tetexnew.log"
cat /dev/null > ${LOG_FILE}
find /usr/share/texmf -name "*.rpmnew" > ${NEW_FILE}
while read newfile
do
   if diff ${newfile} ${newfile%.rpmnew} > /dev/null
   then
      rm -f ${newfile}
      ((NUM_REMOVED=NUM_REMOVED+1))
      echo "Removed ${newfile}: no difference with old file." >> ${LOG_FILE}
   else
      ((NUM_KEPT=NUM_KEPT+1))
      echo "Kept ${newfile}: differences with old file exist." >> ${LOG_FILE}
   fi
done < ${NEW_FILE}
rm -f ${NEW_FILE}
echo -e "\n********\nSummary:\n********"
printf '%25s %d\n' ".rpmnew files found:" $((NUM_REMOVED+NUM_KEPT))
printf '%25s %d\n' "Files removed:" ${NUM_REMOVED}
printf '%25s %d\n' "Files kept:" ${NUM_KEPT}
echo -e "\nSee the log file ${LOG_FILE} for details."

On my system it came up with only 99 .rpmnew files under /usr/share/texmf, and only 1 of them (/usr/share/texmf/pxdvi/XDvi.rpmnew) had a change (so the other 98 were removed).

[marcrblevins]

I love you Rupert! :P

Now lets kick someone's @ss for making this mess in the first place.

My results from Rupert's script.
[root@kiriyamablevins marc]# ./fixrpm

********
Summary:
********
.rpmnew files found: 97
Files removed: 97
Files kept: 0

See the log file tetexnew.log for details.
[root@kiriyamablevins marc]#

Again, thanks!

[orie0943]

Thank you for a very useful script, which with a little tweaking removed all the other .rpmnew files that yum had left on my system.