Reconfiguring packages

[Frank McCormick]

On 02/01/13 04:22 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:03:33 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
>> On 01/01/2013 04:26 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:37:11 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>        Having come from Debian unstable, the switch to YUM from Aptitude
>>>> is a bit disconcerting for me. So far I have managed but i have a question.
>>>>
>>>> In Debian, a package can be reconfigured (package such as console-setup)
>>>> using dpkg-reconfigure. Can the same thing be accomplished
>>>> in Fedora. I have 2 Fedora installations, 17 and 18.
>>>
>>> No. Something like dpkg-configure and debconf is not used by RPM packages.
>>>
>>
>>     -Yes....I know that...I was asking if there is a Fedora equivalent.
>
> No. As I wrote, _something like_ that is not used by RPM packages. RPM
> packages are not supposed to be interactive during installation. And once
> installed, you don't work on "packages" anymore, but with the files that
> belong to the package. That is, either the package contains some sort of
> configuration tool to run, or you edit config files that are marked as
> such (so RPM can handle them in special ways during package updates).
>


   OK, sorry misunderstood what you wrote (obviously). I am still 
feeling my way around Fedora. There are enough differences to make it
hard at times.


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