need spec file example to replace files from various packages

[Steve Friedman]

We wrote an RPM that:

(a) Requires whatever other RPMs that we want to use (so a standard 
install would work and we didn't need to spend time selecting the packages 
to install and so that we could deploy a newly useful RPM quickly to all 
machines)

(b) installs our config files to /etc/local-install

(c) includes an init.d script which runs at level 01 in rc2/3/4/5 to copy 
the above files to their appropriate location (overwriting the RPM-owned 
file) on each startup.

I couldn't think of a better way.

Steve Friedman


On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Paul Johnson wrote:

> After installing Fedora, I want to replace various configuration files
> on lab computers. If I can learn how to do this in the post section of
> an RPM spec file, I will be happy.  For example, I want/need to
> replace things like
>
> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default
> /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth
> /etc/hosts.allow
> /etc/hosts.deny
>
> One brute force option is to install with rpm --replacefiles, but yum
> does not like that.
> So can  you point me at a spec file or two that will give example
> syntax on how I can create a backup of those files and replace them
> with the ones I want.
>
> Please?
>
>