Tarek Ziadé wrote: 
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Gerry Reno <greno@verizon.net> wrote:
  
I've been looking at the spec file that 'bdist_rpm' generates and I do not
see a %config or %config(noreplace) section.  Is there a way to generate a
%config section and specify a list of files?  This is important so that
config files do not get overwritten when using 'rpm -U'.
    

Looking at the code, I don't see such option,

please fill a feature request in http://bugs.python.org/ selecting
'Distutils' as a component,

(with a sample of such a spec file if possible)

Thanks

  
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Ok, I found a way to use %config like this:

In setup.cfg define a line:
install_script=install.txt

In the file 'install.txt' I put this:

---------------------------------------------------
CONFIGFILES="\
%config(noreplace) /etc/myconfigfile.cfg"

echo "$CONFIGFILES" | cat INSTALLED_FILES - > INSTALLED_FILES.new
mv INSTALLED_FILES.new INSTALLED_FILES
---------------------------------------------------

Make sure your config file is added to the filelist fed to 'setup()' by setup.py
And this works.