Guidelines for %config and %config(noreplace)

Shahms King shahms at shahms.com
Mon May 23 19:01:50 UTC 2005


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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.
|

Isn't /usr/share/* the wrong place for a config file? In a similar vein,
wasn't there a recent thread about moving SSL keys into /etc/ssl/?

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