Marking files in /etc/cron.* as %config

[Tim Jackson]

In the awstats package we have a cron.hourly script which updates 
statistics. It's currently (intentionally on the part of the Fedora 
maintainer Aurelien) marked as %config(noreplace), on the basis that users 
expect to be able to edit these scripts and don't expect RPMs to clobber 
them. I noticed today that rpmlint complains about this:

awstats.noarch: E: executable-marked-as-config-file /etc/cron.hourly/awstats

I had a look in the guidelines and couldn't see anything explicit about 
this case. I can see the arguments both ways. Personally I generally leave 
RPM-installed /etc/cron.* scripts alone where I can, and install my own 
ones if I want to do something different. However I can see that not 
everyone would do that. Additionally, there is the complication that (as 
with awstats) people might not like the default functionality (e.g. they 
might want to update their stats every day, not every hour).

One way of solving this would be to do it in a similar way to how we do 
init scripts e.g. have /etc/sysconfig/awstats with:

UPDATEFREQ=hourly|daily|none

and have the default-installed cron.* scripts act accordingly.

Alternatively, clamav drops a crontab file into /etc/cron.d which in turn 
calls an update script. Since this is not an executable, rpmlint won't 
complain.

Any comments? I think we should cover this in the guidelines.

Thanks

Tim