On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 09:18 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 06:39:09 Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > 1. When will you finally understand that rpm's %config has nothing to do > > with configurating a system. %config only specifies rpm's behavior upon > > handling of backups upon install. > > A side effect of marking something %config is that an rpm -qc (show me config > files) will spit out that file and lead the user to believe he can edit said > file to do further configuration. Yes, ... and it's good this way. > Perhaps you're trying to use the %config > hammer because there is no other way of doing file preservation without > marking it as a configuration file. Yes, ... because there is no need to do so in "another way". %config/%config(noreplace) exactly do what they are supposed to do: create backups upon update/upgrade, because the packager has acknowledged a user/admin might have customized a file. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
