config file in /usr

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Dec 6 15:03:52 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 09:40 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> I'm not sure what to do with this rpm error.
> 
> I'm looking at packaging pinot, part of xapian search.
> 
> Builds OK, but rpmlint says:
> E: pinot-omega 
> file-in-usr-marked-as-conffile /usr/share/pinot/engines/OmegaDescription.xml
> 
> According to the author, this could be user-editable
=> Must be below /etc

>  - similar 
> to /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.8/searchplugins/*
>
> What should I do with this?
Hack the package to pick it up from somewhere below /etc

Ralf





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