Proposed guideline for init script files

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 6 19:11:20 UTC 2007


Steve Dickson wrote:
> 
> 
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Steve Dickson wrote:
>>
>>> Please don't forget... Fedora lives for RHEL... and as soon as a
>>> RHEL customer loses a piece of valuable information do some
>>> uneducated Fedora policy... That policy will change...
>>
>> Don't be so melodramatic.  If it's currently marked %config, nothing 
>> will be lost, but saved as foo.rpmsave.
> Unless I've misunderstood... 

I think so.

>'%config initscripts' are no longer legal
> so if a customer has valuable information in that script it will be
> lost... 

My understanding is when upgrading from a package *with* %config foo to 
a package *without* %config foo will result in foo.rpmsave (if foo had 
been modified).

-- Rex




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