Finally I found the culprit.. in other occasions I have searched for it but
I was not able to find.
Probably the correct google search combination today ;-)
http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2003-October/msg00134.html
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The bit that implements %config(noreplace) maps to (from lib/rpmlib.h):
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:43 AM, Gianluca Cecchi
wrote:
> Hello,
> sorry if this question is more for rpm devs...
> I know that in a spec file the definition
>
> %confg .../file_name1
> will cause update of an edited file_name1, saving the on disk one into
> .rpmsave before overwriting
>
> whil
Hello,
sorry if this question is more for rpm devs...
I know that in a spec file the definition
%confg .../file_name1
will cause update of an edited file_name1, saving the on disk one into
.rpmsave before overwriting
while
%confg(noreplace) .../file_name2
will retain the edited file_name2