Hi all, In Fedora various applications/tools/utils (like yum, Apache, cron, xinetd, logrotate, pam, etc) gracefully handle user configuration files by providing a "*.d" directory in which user config files can be placed (that do not conflict with the base package's configuration files) and are then include'ed into the config on host/application startup. This allows user configurations to be installed on systems via RPM without conflicts and other clunkiness. Squid is one package that is the exception with a squid.conf file owned by the RPM and no way for user definitions to be included ( that I know of ). I'm just using squid as an example, not blaming it for anything by the way as I know many other packages operate this way like postfix etc. Now normally in small environments this isn't a problem as squid updates would drop in a squid.conf.rpmnew file and all will be ok with the world. But this means that home grown configs cannot be deployed via RPM due to conflict issues. So if you have a cluster of 10,15,20 servers running an application like this what does the Fedora community recommend? Use CFengine, rpm --force, roll our own RPMs, scp scripts to copy over files? Right now I prefer to have configs in RPM as it allows an easy deploy via yum/kickstart and of course easy version control, verification and rollback. I've always been a fan of the most simple solution so I'd be interested to hear what others are doing. I'm also considering either requesting a change from various package maintainers or requesting this as a fedora standard if anybody else thinks that would be useful. Cheers,
