If you were inclined to share, I would be inclined to look...that sounds pretty sweet. Craig On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:11 -0500, Steve Friedman wrote: > We wrote an RPM that: > > (a) Requires whatever other RPMs that we want to use (so a standard > install would work and we didn't need to spend time selecting the packages > to install and so that we could deploy a newly useful RPM quickly to all > machines) > > (b) installs our config files to /etc/local-install > > (c) includes an init.d script which runs at level 01 in rc2/3/4/5 to copy > the above files to their appropriate location (overwriting the RPM-owned > file) on each startup. > > I couldn't think of a better way. > > Steve Friedman > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > After installing Fedora, I want to replace various configuration files > > on lab computers. If I can learn how to do this in the post section of > > an RPM spec file, I will be happy. For example, I want/need to > > replace things like > > > > /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default > > /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default > > /etc/pam.d/system-auth > > /etc/hosts.allow > > /etc/hosts.deny > > > > One brute force option is to install with rpm --replacefiles, but yum > > does not like that. > > So can you point me at a spec file or two that will give example > > syntax on how I can create a backup of those files and replace them > > with the ones I want. > > > > Please? > > > > >
