Alright, this is a stupid question so I'm sorry to be asking it. I've searched the list back for the past 2 years and I couldn't find anyone mentioning this and I'm stuck. That said, I still must ask. :)
We have systems in several different, independant tiers in several different environments. Each tier has it's own general network settings - /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts.allow, ntp.conf, etc. Each tier is entirely independant, they do not communicate with each other ( in most cases ). We keep these config files for all the tiers in a source revision system on a management system.
What we'd like to do is create RPM's for each set of tier configuration files. So I'd like to have my 'configs-web-production-1.0.0' RPM with /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts, etc and then we simply install the correct tier RPM for any given system, depending on which tier the system resides in. As a side note, all these systems are either RHEL3 or RHEL4.
Now for the issues:
I've had to do the test installs with --force, as some of these files ( /etc/ntp.conf ) are owned by other packages ( ntp ). NTP actually isn't too much of an issue and could be repackaged, but other RPMS such as 'setup', a RHEL specific RPM, is not repackagable ( to my knowledge ). So should I just continue to install our new config RPMs with --force or does someone else have some advice on how to properly solve this?
The other issue that I have is that our config RPM really has no one depending on it, so in truth, it could be uninstalled accidentally, which would result in a system without some very important files. The only thing I can come up with would to be install an empty RPM that requires our config RPM ( somewhat like the redhat-lsb RPM works.. ). Any suggestions on this would also be welcome.
Thanks.
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