What do I need to do to write to /etc in an rpm?

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Linus Walleij wrote:

> I thought that that was what was intended, the kernel module writes the file 
> (akin to /var/log files), not the RPM package. Atleast that's how I read it.

And ironically, there really is a file that should be %ghost:ed in /etc, 
namely /etc/mtab, but ironically:

[linus at felicia ~]$ rpm -qf /etc/mtab
file /etc/mtab is not owned by any package

Linus