Re: %config files and upgrade to F11 - consider noreplace

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 18:06 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Miloslav Trmač <mitr volny cz> wrote:
> >> Please review use of %config without noreplace in your packages, and add
> >> noreplace if appropriate.  The list of affected packages is below.
> > <snip>
> >> giallu  alleyoop
> > 
> > this is because of:
> > %config %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/*.schemas
> > 
> > I checked other packages and it seems they are not marking with
> > %config the files in /etc/gconf/schemas.
> > 
> > So, may I safely drop this?
> 
> Yes, gconf schemas are data, not %config.
> 
> > In that case, maybe rpmlint should grow a rule to not return:
> > alleyoop.i386: W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/gconf/schemas/alleyoop.schemas
> > on the resulting rpm?
> 
> File a bug and let the rpmlint maintainers see what they think.

Isn't the bug more likely in gconf? If these are data they should not be
in /etc but /usr (according to FHS).

I note that openSUSE has a feature request for this:

https://features.opensuse.org/305318

which claims that Debian does it already. What's upstream's take on
this?
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