Kolev, Nik wrote, around 06/15/2005 06:43 AM:
The way I approach this is have a %post scriptlet that either edits the files to what they need to be, or overwrites them (while preserving a copy of the existing ones to restore to when uninstalling) with the new version of these files (which should be part of the package). Something like (I am only trying to demonstrate): %post mv $(DEFAULT_FILE) $(SAVE_DEFAULT_FILE) mv $(NEW_DEFAULT_FILE) $(DEFAULT_FILE) %postun mv $(SAVE_DEFAULT_FILE) $(DEFAULT_FILE) %files $(NEW_DEFAULT_FILE)
You may also want to consider using a triggers to do this, so you get a chance to react when the original package is updated.
See /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/triggers for info & examples.
