On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Marius Schwarz wrote: > Am 17.03.21 um 16:47 schrieb Kevin Fenzi: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:25:24AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > Does Fedora has any policies regarding editing or replacing (say with > > > symbolic links) of configuration files owned by another package? That > > > is, automatically on system or package installation, and not as a tool > > > that system administrators run explicitly to make changes to those > > > files. > > I don't see anything explicit. There's: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_file_and_directory_ownership > > which talks about a package owning all it's files, but it doesn't > > explicitly say no to this. > > > > That said, IMHO this should be forbidden. > > > > Whats the use case? > It maybe not Florians use-case, but we may have a similar situation on > pinephone: > > fedora-release-common-32-4.noarch owns /etc/os-release > > our spin should identify itself as "XXXXXX" via variant_id added to > os-release. Once we have a spin, yep. Right now all we have is a remix. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Remix > 3 Ways: > > 1) contacting the package owner, and ask for his help on this case. Once we have a spin, this is the way. Well, ideally we would submit a PR to fedora-release and just need to get it reviewed/merged. > 2) a replacement package with a changed version of os-release is stored into > copr ( higher priority ) > 3) a helper package post-script adds the needed line to os-release if not > present (*USE-CASE here* ) > > Whats actually the best way to deal with it? If we want to have this now in the remix, I would say we could take generic-release and modify it for our needs and ship that instead of fedora-release. I'm not sure that it's up to date tho... :( At one point it was nicely setup to allow just swapping generic-release in and modifying it. Since the remix likely has a small audience I suppose those other methods could work, but they aren't ideal. ;( kevin
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