[Mageia-dev] Proposal: Updating released versions (long post)

Wed Oct 13 19:08:54 CEST 2010

Le samedi 09 octobre 2010 à 11:10 +0200, Renaud MICHEL a écrit :
+> On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote :
+> > Note that configuration files that have been changed from the 
+> > installation default are often already saved.  (Generally ".old" is 
+> > appended to the configuration file name, sometimes ".new" to the new 
+> > configuration file.)
+> 
+> But here you are only talking about system-wide configuration files, which 
+> are known of rpm as they are part of the package and marked as config files.
+> But what about user specific configuration files?
+> For the easy kind, where a program will have a single configuration file (or 
+> dedicated directory), a pre-inst script could find it in the home of each 
+> users and backup them.
+
+touching /home is forbidden in %pre and %post per policy.
+
+1) you cannot be sure that every user are available ( ie, using
+ldap/nis )
+
+2) you cannot be sure that someone is not already using the
+directory/config file ( ie, shared home by nfs, or multiuser system )
+
+3) you cannot be sure that the home is mounted ( auto mounter based on
+login, etc )
+
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+