[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFE: option for initial-only content in files (#152)

[soig]

On 9 February 2017 at 09:18, Panu Matilainen <notifications at github.com>
wrote:

> Originally filed in the old rpm.org Trac instance by ovasik for the
> use-case of files like /etc/passwd:
>
> Maybe useful only for combination with %config(noreplace), not sure at the
> moment. There are several files e.g. Fedora's /etc/passwd marked
> %config(noreplace) where it doesn't make sense to .rpmnew file. It is
> useless and could confuse users (and even cause troubles if used as
> replacement for /etc/passwd by unexperienced admin. Therefore I would like
> to not create .rpmnew file, to not replace old /etc/passwd file but to
> INSTALL /etc/passwd file when installing rpm's.
>
> There is afaik no option for this case available at the moment. When I
> mark the file %ghost, it will be not installed - as it will be not part of
> .rpm file - which is not good in this case. Deleting .rpmnew file in %post
> could make paranoic user scared - as rpm update reported .rpmnew file and
> file is missing. If you have other proposal, feel free to post it here.
>
> Could be useful for some catalog files - which have to be installed once,
> but there is no need to update them afterwards - even if the file content
> in new release changed. I do not expect wide usage, but it would be an
> option for such border cases.
>
> Original suggestion was on %config(nowarn), dmach suggested other, far
> better names:
>
>    - installonly
>    - noupdate
>    - norpmnew
>
>
​The last one is not generic enough as one is used to either get a .rpmnew
or a .rpmsave​


>
>
> IMO the use-case is very real and worth implementing, it's just the minor
> details that need sorting out. Such as:
>
>    - The name - %config(nowarn) is absolutely terrible, "noupdate" seems
>    like a nice generic term that describes the functionality well. But other
>    ideas welcome too, something that describes the class of such files (think
>    of %config, %doc etc) would be fine too.
>    - Should this be limited to %config files? My gut feeling says no -
>    for example /etc/passwd is not a %config file in the usual sense, and I
>    seem to have a dim recollection of various other use-cases for this that
>    were not really config files.
>    - This would seem to be in relatively close relation to %ghost,
>    because after such a file becomes just like a %ghost, but it certainly is
>    not a %ghost file since we need to carry it in payload. Is there something
>    else in this direction?
>
> What else?
>


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