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?