Hello - just noticed the scope of this list: "This mailing list provides a discussion forum for RPM packaging standards and practices for Fedora." Apologies for the post - I think I Googled for rpm mailinglist, and ended up here. Still, does anyone know the answer....? :) Living in hope, Calum On 20 May 2011 09:37, Calum <caluml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am rolling my own RPM to provide the correct sudoers config for the > company where I'm working. > > I want it to archive the existing /etc/sudoers, and put down the company's one. > > However, when I install it, I get:file /etc/sudoers from install of > sudo-config-20110520-1.noarch conflicts with file from package > sudo-1.7.2p1 > > There are two ways around it that I know: > > 1. Put the file down as /etc/sudoers.companyname, and mv it in the %post > 2. Unpackage sudo, modify, and re-package. > > I prefer not to do 2, as that will require keeping a close eye on the > security errata of the package, and repackaging every time a new > version is released. I'd rather keep the upstream package untouched, > and just apply my config over the top. > > 1 works fine - however, it breaks the rpm -V functionality, which in > my eyes is a big plus point for using RPMs. > > Installing with --replacefiles will work - however - however, I want > to deploy the package with Puppet, and it doesn't seem to allow > specifying that. > > Is there a way to create the RPM in such a way that --replacefiles is > "built-in" to the RPM? > Is there any other way of doing this - so that rpm -V works? > > Calum > -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
