[Distutils] bdist_rpm: spec file: %config

[Gerry Reno]

Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> 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'.
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> Looking at the code, I don't see such option,
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> please fill a feature request in http://bugs.python.org/ selecting
> 'Distutils' as a component,
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> (with a sample of such a spec file if possible)
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> 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.


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