Thanks very much. Along with others, your response confirms that cleverness is required as the capability I need is definitely not provided by RPM itself, which does nevertheless provide enough hooks to work around the issue. The %verify override idea was a particularly nice touch. Adam On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:10, Bob Proulx wrote: > Adam Welch wrote: > > Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > > What I would decomend for this case is to have a .dist file. Lets > > > say, /etc/soft/conf.dist. Then, on %post, you will do whatever > > > changes you want to this file saving as > > > ... > > > Don't forget, of course, to make /etc/soft/conf as a %ghost file. > > > Maybe even using %noverify. This way, you can still have it > > > removed when you remove the package. > > > Thanks for your considered reply. If I fully understand it, your > > approach would write an .rpmnew on upgrade only if post-localization > > changes resulted in a file with different contents. That's great, such > > as it is, but it doesn't give a config file that will "verify" with rpm > > -V, which is really my problem, since a config file that doesn't verify > > will, upon upgrade, be either replaced (.rpmsave) or supplemented > > (.rpmnew), even when that is not needed (localization results in same > > file). > > What I would recommend is mostly similar but slightly different. You > don't have to include the /etc/ config file in your rpm package. > Manage it similarly to suggested above but not in your %files section > at all. Remove it in %postun and %preun. Not being part of your > package means that it can't fail verify. The only thing you lose is > the 'rpm -qf /etc/file' ability. > > I have packaged files like this. I keep the pristine package version > in my /usr/share/doc/package/default-config directory. (Not > completely sure this is fully FHS compliant since /usr/share/doc is > optional..) In the %preun script check if they have been modified by > comparing them to the pristine copies and handle that apropriately. > > In that case you should create your own %verify script to verify the > contents of the files not listed in %files. > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
