On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 21:31 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 19:45 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > On Mon, 23 May 2005 19:37:47 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > > > > Are there any guidelines when to use %config and when %config > > > (noreplace)? > > How about "Always use noreplace unless your best guess is that it will > break things"? AFAICS there are really only two situations where > noreplace is likely to break stuff: > > 1) An app is being upgraded from an earlier version which had > incompatible config files which will break the new version. > > 2) An app is being installed for the first time from a rpm, and a file > marked as config in the package was already present on the system before > installing the package, AND it's not likely that the app being installed > would work with the config file that was already present on the system. That's exactly what I wanted to hear, thanks Ville. Could someone with rights put this to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines -- Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx>
