Missing configuration files for Alpine in Fedora 8, 9

[Rex Dieter]

Michael Hannon wrote:

> Greetings.  I've been seeing some strange behavior with the "alpine"
> package in Fedora 8 and 9 recently.
> 
> The gist of it is that there don't seem to be any configuration files
> for alpine, even though RPM lists them.
...
> No complaints from the installer.  OK, what got installed?
> 
>     [root at localsys ~]# rpm -ql alpine
>     /etc/pine.conf
>     /etc/pine.conf.fixed

Those files are marked as
%ghost %config(noreplace)
which means they're not present by default, but will be used and won't be
removed/modified by alpine updates.

-- Rex