Le samedi 09 octobre 2010 à 11:10 +0200, Renaud MICHEL a écrit : > On samedi 09 octobre 2010 at 05:45, andré wrote : > > Note that configuration files that have been changed from the > > installation default are often already saved. (Generally ".old" is > > appended to the configuration file name, sometimes ".new" to the new > > configuration file.) > > But here you are only talking about system-wide configuration files, which > are known of rpm as they are part of the package and marked as config files. > But what about user specific configuration files? > For the easy kind, where a program will have a single configuration file (or > dedicated directory), a pre-inst script could find it in the home of each > users and backup them.
touching /home is forbidden in %pre and %post per policy. 1) you cannot be sure that every user are available ( ie, using ldap/nis ) 2) you cannot be sure that someone is not already using the directory/config file ( ie, shared home by nfs, or multiuser system ) 3) you cannot be sure that the home is mounted ( auto mounter based on login, etc ) -- Michael Scherer