About cron files and rpmlint

Sergio Belkin sebelk at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 15:53:26 UTC 2013


Thanks guys


2013/2/19 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com>

> On 02/19/2013 03:43 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote:
>
>> Hi, rpmlint complains about cron files, is that a bug?
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> tmpwatch.x86_64: E: executable-marked-as-config-**file
>> /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
>> Executables must not be marked as config files because that may prevent
>> upgrades from working correctly. If you need to be able to customize an
>> executable, make it for example read a config file in /etc/sysconfig.
>>
>
> I raised this question two month ago:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.**org/pipermail/packaging/2012-**
> November/008749.html<http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2012-November/008749.html>
>
> But do not expect conclusion :)
>
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