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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] lvm2 initscript is marked as a config file...?</H1>
    <B>Michael Scherer</B> 
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<PRE>Le mardi 06 mars 2012 &#224; 22:12 +0200, Anssi Hannula a &#233;crit :
&gt;<i> 06.03.2012 21:48, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Hiya
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I noticed while doing the updates round that the file
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; /etc/init.d/lvm2-monitor had a .rpmnew... Thus is seems to be marked as
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; a config file. Is this correct? Most initscripts are not meant to be
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; configured... is this the exception that proves the rule?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Doesn't look like configurable.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I have many times seen random non-config files marked as
</I>&gt;<i> %config(noreplace) in very old .specs just because they are in /etc.
</I>&gt;<i> This instance also predates mdv SVN migration (unfortunately their CVS
</I>&gt;<i> has been brought down).
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> (maybe rpmlint wrongly warned about them many many years ago, causing
</I>&gt;<i> people to add unwanted %config flags...)
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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.

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