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 wrote:
>Éric Araujo added the comment:
>
>Can you give more information about this change?
>
>As a new feature, it cannot go into 2.7.
>
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>type: -> enhancement
>versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7
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