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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178580
Summary: /etc/sysconfig/spamassasin is always modified Product: Fedora Core Version: devel Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: normal Component: spamassassin AssignedTo: wtogami@redhat.com ReportedBy: wtogami@redhat.com CC: fedora-perl-devel- list@redhat.com,felicity@kluge.net,jm@jmason.org,parkerm @pobox.com,reg+redhat@sidney.com,wtogami@redhat.com
QA discovered that /etc/sysconfig/spamassasin is being replaced during every package intallation or upgrade.
# -a and --auto-whitelist options were removed from 3.0.0 # prevent service startup failure perl -p -i -e 's/(["\s]-\w+)a/$1/ ; s/(["\s]-)a(\w+)/$1$2/ ; s/(["\s])-a\b/$1/' /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin perl -p -i -e 's/ --auto-whitelist//' /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin
Since FC3 spamassassin.spec %post contained this to remove user added options during an upgrade from pre-3.0 SA that caused the new version to fail. QA discovered that this perl syntax actually creates another file and deletes the original file. This means that even if no change happens, the file has a different timestamp and selinux security context.
Impact: Not much, but it should be fixed some time in the future.
Fix: This probably involves testing before doing the modification in order to avoid an unnecessary replacement. In the replacement case chcon is needed in order to maintain the correct selinux context.