On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:43:53AM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi, rpmlint complains about cron files, is that a bug? > For example: > tmpwatch.x86_64: E: executable-marked-as-config-file > /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch > Executables must not be marked as config files because that may prevent > upgrades from working correctly. If you need to be able to customize an > executable, make it for example read a config file in /etc/sysconfig. Without commenting on the general case, I think that in the specific case the explanation applies. If one wants to add a new directory to the tmpwatch list, thus modifying the file, and then we (oh for example) change the location of /usr/sbin/tmpwatch, on update either the new directory will be lost or else the whole thing will break (depending on whether the file is noreplace). That said, I believe the plan is to eventually get rid of the systemwide tmpwatch -- see the comments on this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866693 -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
