creating .rpm files for special installations

[Todd Zullinger]

g wrote:
> on firefox tsl, a user of ubuntu needs to run a lan system wide
> installation of an extension to firefox.
>
> a reply was to create a .deb package and put in a local repository,
> add local repo to all clients repo list.
>
> to add an extension to firefox, appending to some config files is
> required.
>
> not recalling all abilities of rpm, my question is, can rpm/yum
> append to existing files?

It can.  Whether it should is another matter.  But the rpm scriptlets
are run as root, so you can do most anything.

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