[Fedora-packaging] is /etc/cron.*/* config file?

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Nov 5 18:07:32 UTC 2012


On 11/05/2012 05:32 AM, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Lets have this rpmlint error:
> hylafax+.x86_64: E: executable-marked-as-config-file
> /etc/cron.daily/hylafax
> 
> My question is: Is /etc/cron.*/* files config file or not?
> 
> We have both precedence in Fedora. E.g package cups do not mark
> /etc/cron.daily/cups as config file, but package tmpwatch mark
> /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch as config file.

I think (just my opinion), that anything under /etc is a config file
unless there is a very very good reason for it not to be.

~tom

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