KV added the comment: Configuration files in RPMs can have several attributes, one important one is 'noreplace' (i.e., "%config(noreplace) file-name"). This allows for configuration files that have been changed after the RPM has been installed to not be over-written when the RPM is updated -- for example with a later version. This is very important, because you often want to customize your configuration -- that's what the configuration is for after all. Without 'noreplace', your changes will be over-written by the updated RPM's "stock" configuration file.
I'm sad to see it can't be made available for 2.6/2.7. I realize this is very old, but that's the version that's stock on RedHat Enterprise Linux -- which many of us are forced to use through our work environments. On Thursday, March 13, 2014 5:24 AM, Éric Araujo <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: >Éric Araujo added the comment: > >Can you give more information about this change? > >As a new feature, it cannot go into 2.7. > > >---------- >components: +Distutils -Build >nosy: +eric.araujo >type: -> enhancement >versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7 > >_______________________________________ >Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> ><http://bugs.python.org/issue20337> >_______________________________________ > > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20337> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
