Re: [Libvir] RPM upgrades interaction with default networking

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:48:11PM -0700, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:22 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> When we build an RPM we also include the default.xml file in the >> /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks directory, as well as the autostart symlink. >> So anyone installing the libvirt RPM gets the default network, whether >> they're doing an upgrade or fresh install. This is reasonable for the >> new install, or the first time you upgrade to a new neworking-enabled >> libvirt. If you subsequently delete the default network, or turn off >> autostarting, then along comes the next libvirt RPM update and autostart >> gets turned back on, and/or the default network recreated. > Have you tried how rpm reacts to a %config(noreplace) for those files ? > I am not sure how it deals with file deletions, but for files changed by > the user, it properly creates the new file as .rpmnew (and some people > actually have scripts to help them reconcile the rpmnew files with their > changes, interactively, of course) The deletion of files is unfortunately the most important bit - and as far as my testing has seen, no matter what you annotate with, if you delete a file it will always get re-created upon upgrade :-(