[mw-devel] MW3 r1022 - in trunk: . src

Andrew Price welshbyte at sucs.org
Mon Mar 31 10:48:58 BST 2008


On 31/03/08 10:41, Steve Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Andrew Price wrote:
> 
>> Because it's not a config file.
> 
> It is as far as the package manager cares - config files are those things 
> that will be modified after installation and thus should never be replaced 
> by an upgrade.  If you don't mark it as a config file it'll be blown away 
> each time you upgrade the RPM and replaced with the packaged version.

There's no longer a packaged folders.bb file so that problem is solved.
We can now start treating the variable data files as such and it's just
a matter of changing path names before they can be stored in appropriate
places under /var.




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