Re: Package Guidelines: Should config files follow upstream or Fedora defaults?

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:43 AM Christopher Engelhard <ce@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> one more question about the subpackage approach
>
> On 10/8/18 12:39 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >> 2) ship example config file as real config file, with upstream's example
> >>    config activated
> >
> > Ship this configuration in a subpackage (sshguard-iptables).  Use rich
> > dependencies to have it auto-installed if iptables-services is installed.
> >
> >> 3) ship custom config file preconfigured for Fedora defaults
> >
> > Ship this configuration in a subpackage (sshguard-firewalld). Use rich
> > dependencies to have it auto-installed if firewalld is installed.
>
> This implies that the spec contains multiple /etc/sshguard.conf files. I
> can ship them as %doc sshguard.conf.<backend>, and then cp them to
> sshguard.conf during %post <subpackage>, but then no package would own
> that file, right?
>
> I can of course create separate packages with separate spec files for
> the config, but can this also be made to work with subpackages?
>

You can use "RemovePathPostfixes" to make it so they install properly.
This avoids the scriptlet messiness and should work as intended for
everything.

There are a couple of examples I'm aware of, but one that's in Fedora
that I know of is curl:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/curl/blob/master/f/curl.spec


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