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On a Fedora 24 system, I ran: sudo rpm -Uvh fedora-release-25-0.11.noarch.rpm fedora-release-workstation-25-0.11.noarch.rpm fedora-repos-25-0.5.noarch.rpm Preparing... ################################# [100%] Updating / installing... 1:fedora-repos-25-0.5 ################################# [ 17%] 2:fedora-release-25-0.11 ################################# [ 33%] 3:fedora-release-workstation-25-0.1warning: /usr/lib/os.release.d/os-release-workstation saved as /usr/lib/os.release.d/os-release-workstation.rpmsave ################################# [ 50%] Cleaning up / removing... 4:fedora-release-workstation-24-2 ################################# [ 67%] 5:fedora-repos-24-1 ################################# [ 83%] 6:fedora-release-24-2 ################################# [100%] The content was: $ cat /usr/lib/os.release.d/os-release-workstation.rpmsave NAME="Fedora" VERSION="24 (Workstation Edition)" ID=fedora VERSION_ID=24 PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 24 (Workstation Edition)" ANSI_COLOR="0;34" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24" HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=24 REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora" REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=24 PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy" VARIANT="Workstation Edition" VARIANT_ID=workstation $ cat /usr/lib/os.release.d/os-release-workstation NAME=Fedora VERSION="25 (Workstation Edition)" ID=fedora VERSION_ID=25 PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 25 (Workstation Edition)" ANSI_COLOR="0;34" CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:25" HOME_URL="https://fedoraproject.org/" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT="Fedora" REDHAT_BUGZILLA_PRODUCT_VERSION=25 REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Fedora" REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION=25 PRIVACY_POLICY_URL=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:PrivacyPolicy VARIANT="Workstation Edition" VARIANT_ID=workstation Why did it create a backup of this file?
I have no idea why it would create a backup of that file unless it had been altered at some point since it was installed. The only thing that looks odd is the quotes around the Privacy Policy link... The original F24 file doesn't include those quotes. Maybe you (or some other process) manually added them at some point?
The backup should have only been created if the file had been edited.
(In reply to Dennis Gilmore from comment #2) > The backup should have only been created if the file had been edited. Do you see any changes in the above?
(In reply to Bastien Nocera from comment #3) > Do you see any changes in the above? (In reply to Stephen Gallagher from comment #1) > The original F24 file doesn't include those quotes. Maybe you (or some other > process) manually added them at some point? So yes, that file was different from what the RPM had originally slapped down onto the disk. This is why you got an rpmsave file.
(In reply to Stephen Gallagher from comment #1) <snip> > The original F24 file doesn't include those quotes. Maybe you (or some other > process) manually added them at some point? Sorry, I missed that bit. My mistake, I was testing a patch upstream (which did use quotes, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770260) Thanks for the root causing as well.