I cannot figure out how to prevent removal of configuration files...

[Red Cricket]

how about instead of doing ...

mv gwy-tomcat6.dev  gwy-tomcat6

... do this ...

test -e gwy-tomcat6.rpmnew && mv gwy-tomcat6.rpmnew gwy-tomcat6

... in the %post section?


On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Mark Jaffe <jaffe.mark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This might be a little long-winded, but I am tearing my hair out over this
> problem. Here's the situation: we run our services under tomcat, and we have
> detailed configurations for each environment. At one time, before I got
> myself involved, all configs were managed "by hand", being checked-out from
> source control and placed in the required directory. There is a single file,
> "gwy-tomcat6" which gets sourced during startup, and in some cases an
> additional file "gwy-tomcat6.env" may also exist.
>
> Based on some work I had done in another establishment, I realized we could
> manage these configs within the rpm, so I added some logic to determine
> which environment was being installed, and to make sure the correct configs
> were in place. Here is the strategy:
>
> source control contains:  gwy-tomcat6.dev, gwy-tomcat6.qa, gwy-tomcat6.stg,
> gwy-tomcat6.perf, gwy-tomcat6.prod
>
> these are put in place in the rpm %install section:
> install -m 0644  server/sysconfig/gwy-tomcat6.prod
> %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/
> install -m 0644  server/sysconfig/gwy-tomcat6.dev
> %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/
> install -m 0644  server/sysconfig/gwy-tomcat6.perf
> %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/
> install -m 0644  server/sysconfig/gwy-tomcat6.qa
> %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/
> install -m 0644  server/sysconfig/gwy-tomcat6.stg
> %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/
>
> In the %post section, logic determines the environment, and does this (for
> example):
>       cd /etc/sysconfig
>       rm -f gwy-tomcat6.prod  gwy-tomcat6.perf
>       rm -f gwy-tomcat6.stg
>       rm -f gwy-tomcat6.qa
>       mv gwy-tomcat6.dev  gwy-tomcat6
>
> All should then be well when the application starts up. But here's the
> kicker: during %postun, rpm does a removal of what it believes are artifacts
> from the previous version, and the carefully managed configuration file
> disappears!
>
> I've tried numerous tricks like setting %config attributes:
> %config %attr(644,root,root) %{_sysconfdir}/sysconfig/gwy-tomcat6
>
> But then I just end up with a gwy-tomcat6.rpmnew which the application
> ignores.
>
> Is there something I could do to solve this dilemma?
>
> Regards,
> Mark
>
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