[Kolab-devel] Autofoo Proposal

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting "Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)" <vanmeeuwen at kolabsys.com>:

> Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> This embeds the configuration firmly into the RPM when building the
>> package and means that you need to rebuild once a specific path
>> changed. This is okay for the OpenPKG situation but usually more
>> difficult on a native installation.
>>
>
> Actually, the rebuilding of a RPM package because of configuration changes in
> files provided through an RPM, at least on the consuming side, is completely
> unnecessary, provided the packaging is done properly.

Oh, I didn't want to imply that we still do that or endorse this way  
of packaging for OpenPKG. kolab-webadmin is the only real relict and I  
consider kolabd to be somewhat special.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> On the provider side though, configuration changes should not end up in a
> stable stream of the product <insert-something-about-pragmatic-source-code-
> management-here />.
>
> Having said that, again provided the RPM packaging is done properly, RPM even
> allows configuration updates provided through package updates to be merged in
> with an existing, changed configuration file (provided the merge can be
> performed automatically -e.g. no merge conflicts or fuzziness- and this is
> opt-in at the discretion of the consumer).
>
> In any case, either such a merge is performed, or .rpmnew files show  
> up on the
> filesystem. Conditional reloads/restarts are performed if necessary, and
> configured in the package.
>
> Luckily, Christoph Wickert and myself are packaging gurus in Fedora  
> (including
> Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux[1]).
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
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>
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