Guidelines for %config and %config(noreplace)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 23 May 2005 19:37:47 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:

> Are there any guidelines when to use %config and when %config
> (noreplace)?
> If you look at this bug report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158568
> 
> Currently in FC-3 the ca-bundle.pem file is not %config at all. This is
> obviously wrong because if sysadmin changes this file (and it's
> legitimate to do so) he will lose his changes after openssl update.
> 
> However it's questionable if it should be %config(noreplace) because
> then he will not get the changes (new CA certificates) on update.

What's more important...?

 [ ] sysadmin gets an *.rpmsave config file during upgrade
 [ ] sysadmin gets an *.rpmnew config file during upgrade