[Mageia-dev] lvm2 initscript is marked as a config file...?

Sat Mar 10 11:10:16 CET 2012

Le mardi 06 mars 2012 à 22:12 +0200, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> 06.03.2012 21:48, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
+> > Hiya
+> > 
+> > I noticed while doing the updates round that the file
+> > /etc/init.d/lvm2-monitor had a .rpmnew... Thus is seems to be marked as
+> > a config file. Is this correct? Most initscripts are not meant to be
+> > configured... is this the exception that proves the rule?
+> 
+> Doesn't look like configurable.
+> 
+> I have many times seen random non-config files marked as
+> %config(noreplace) in very old .specs just because they are in /etc.
+> This instance also predates mdv SVN migration (unfortunately their CVS
+> has been brought down).
+> 
+> (maybe rpmlint wrongly warned about them many many years ago, causing
+> people to add unwanted %config flags...)
+
+That's it. 
+
+And that's something that always bothered me on a fundamental level, if
+that's not config, it should not be in /etc/, as this gave likely wrong
+expectation to people ( ie, that they could safely hack around
+initscripts and have no problem on upgrade ). The systemd approach with
+inheritance is much cleaner on this regard.
+
+