[OE-core] [PATCH 3/5] logrotate: files will be over written when updating using rpm

Dan McGregor danismostlikely at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 17:54:27 UTC 2014


On 14 November 2014 03:43, Jian Liu <jian.liu at windriver.com> wrote:
> If there is no %config micro before the file in the spec file,
> this file will be over-written after updating this package
> using rpm.
> This will make our settings lost.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jian Liu <jian.liu at windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.7.bb | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.7.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.7.bb
> index faa8e02..8b39602 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.7.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-extended/logrotate/logrotate_3.8.7.bb
> @@ -54,3 +54,5 @@ do_install(){
>      install -p -m 755 examples/logrotate.cron ${D}${sysconfdir}/cron.daily/logrotate
>      touch ${D}${localstatedir}/lib/logrotate.status
>  }
> +
> +CONFFILES_${PN} += "${localstatedir}/lib/logrotate.status"

Part of me thinks this shouldn't be an installed file at all; instead
it should be created by a post install script if it doesn't already
exist. Thoughts?

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