On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 05:02:17PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 28.11.18 um 15:45 schrieb Florian Weimer: > > * Richard W. M. Jones: > > > >> Trying to track down a bug in IPP printing > >> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1653276). > >> > >> We're down a rabbit hole where it seems that in Fedora 29 > >> /etc/nssswitch.conf ought to be a symlink. This machine has been > >> upgraded from F28 and this is not the case. AFAIK I have never edited > >> the file. > > > > /etc/nsswitch.conf is owned by glibc. It is not a symbolic link as we > > ship it. > > > > If find out which packages replaces our configuration with a symbolic > > link, please file a bug against that package. If they want to take over > > /etc/nsswitch.conf, this is negotiable, but it needs coordination with > > the glibc package. > > and that's why i do "chattr +i /etc/nsswitch.conf" and "chattr +i > /etc/resolv.conf" for year - guys stop mangle around in /etc - this is > admin area and way too often the mdns crap was added unasked or "mysql" > for nss-mysql touched in the past years finding you perfectly working > config in a damned .bak file > > everything which touchs /etc at updates is broken by design Yes I've been doing chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf for a very long time. However in the case of /etc/nsswitch.conf, changing it (with the cooperation of glibc of course) to be a symlink seems reasonable. What I'm (still) missing is what's the actual plan? What should things look like? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
