Re: problems with using RPM to install files in /etc/cron.d/

[Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob suespammers org>]

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On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:13:35PM +1200, Trevor Hills wrote:
>  The solution we have used for this is to 'touch' any new added files 
> and the /etc/cron.d directory in the RPM's post-install script. This 
> does not seem like a good solution too us. Is this common practice?

Just make sure those entries you are touching, when listed on the %files
section, have %verify(notime) on them, so you can keep "rpm -V" from
complaining.

Unless you want them to be considered config file. For that case, you
can use %config.


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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob suespammers org>
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