On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:13 -0400, Adam Welch wrote: > I like the semantics of %config and %config(noreplace). However, I find > that I'd often like to make small modifications to config files as part > of post-installation, and not have these modifications trigger the > .rpmsave or .rpmnew on the next upgrade. You see, often the > configuration modifications that I make in post-install are of the > "localization" variety, rather than the "customization" variety. I'd > like the "localization" mods to not be reflected in the "changed-or-not" > status of the package. That is, I think that I'd like to munge the MD5 > of various config files as part of post-install, to account for > localizations. One recommendation would be to source a file where all the localisations go, that file could be a %ghost %config(noreplace) and sourced by your main config. That way you have only one volatile file. Many Fedora and RHEL init scripts use a file in /etc/sysconfig for this (often unowned though). Paul
