[Mageia-dev] rootcerts: Are the certs really "config" files?

Mon Jan 7 16:50:26 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 07/01/13 11:51 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> I just updated rootcerts package on my cauldron box and got about 50 ish
+> .rpmnew files for changed pem files.
+> 
+> It seems mostly indentation changes (*sigh*) but it made me think - Are
+> these really config files? I'd expect these to not be marked as config
+> even if they are kept in /etc/ Ideally I'd rather see them kept in
+> /usr/share anyway as that seems more appropriate, but that's likely not
+> possible without causing a lot of pain.
+
+
+Just for completeness, I started this thread over on systemd ML which
+talked about a "CoreOS" goal of being able to boot with an empty /etc
+
+http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/7908
+
+I've been slowly trying to push this anyway (i.e. moving all shipped
+udev rules and tmpfiles to /usr) but there is a long, long way to go
+here to get this fully working (and a crap-load of packages to fix up in
+this regards so it won't really happen anytime soon).
+
+Still, it would make running a chrooted/multi-root/shared-/usr system
+much more manageable and I think it's something we should all keep in
+mind as we package and develop things :)
+
+Happy hacking.
+
+Col
+
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