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List:       redhat-devel
Subject:    Re: my own proposaly
From:       Erik Troan <ewt () redhat ! com>
Date:       1997-06-30 11:45:33
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On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, Christopher Horn wrote:

> While this is a good approach which allows some of the config file
> handling to be automated, perhaps RPM should allow some more control on
> the part of the packager in this area. The packager should be allowed to
> somehow indicate in the spec file that a config file is not to be
> overwritten if found during install time.

RPM 2.4.2 (released Friday) lets you specify %flags(noreplace) for
a config file, which tells RPM never to overwrite it. Instead, RPM
creates a .rpmnew file which contains the updated version.

Erik

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