Re: Packages hijacking configuration files

2021-03-18 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:11 AM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:04 AM Matthew Miller > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 01:24:29PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > If we want to have this now in the remix, I would say we could take > > > generic-release and modify it for

Re: Packages hijacking configuration files

2021-03-18 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 9:04 AM Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 01:24:29PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > If we want to have this now in the remix, I would say we could take > > generic-release and modify it for our needs and ship that instead of > > fedora-release. > > > > I'm

Re: Packages hijacking configuration files

2021-03-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 01:24:29PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > If we want to have this now in the remix, I would say we could take > generic-release and modify it for our needs and ship that instead of > fedora-release. > > I'm not sure that it's up to date tho... :( > > At one point it was

Re: Packages hijacking configuration files

2021-03-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 08:47:00AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > I don't see anything explicit. There's: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_file_and_directory_ownership > which talks about a package owning all it's files, but it doesn't > explicitly say no to this. Also

Re: Packages hijacking configuration files

2021-03-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 08:55:11PM +0100, Marius Schwarz wrote: > Am 17.03.21 um 16:47 schrieb Kevin Fenzi: > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:25:24AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > Does Fedora has any policies regarding editing or replacing (say with > > > symbolic links) of configuration files

Re: Packages hijacking configuration files

2021-03-17 Thread Marius Schwarz
Am 17.03.21 um 16:47 schrieb Kevin Fenzi: On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:25:24AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: Does Fedora has any policies regarding editing or replacing (say with symbolic links) of configuration files owned by another package? That is, automatically on system or package

Re: Packages hijacking configuration files

2021-03-17 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 10:25:24AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > Does Fedora has any policies regarding editing or replacing (say with > symbolic links) of configuration files owned by another package? That > is, automatically on system or package installation, and not as a tool > that system

Packages hijacking configuration files

2021-03-17 Thread Florian Weimer
Does Fedora has any policies regarding editing or replacing (say with symbolic links) of configuration files owned by another package? That is, automatically on system or package installation, and not as a tool that system administrators run explicitly to make changes to those files. Thanks,