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

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Paul wrote:

> I have a kernel module which needs to be able to write files
> to /etc/somewhere. What do I need to put into my .spec file to this?

This might be a case for the rarely-used %ghost macro:
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpm-inside-files-list-directives.html#S3-RPM-INSIDE-FLIST-GHOST-DIRECTIVE

Linus