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    Hi Ross,<br>
    <br>
    My understanding is that they are used to help make NFS state-full. 
    The "state" file is part of the extension to add Network Status
    Monitoring (NSM) to NFS.<br>
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    In the RPM world, they need to label them as configuration files to
    avoid them getting overwritten during an upgrade.  <br>
    <br>
    The Debian approach removes them on a "purge" in the postrm stage
    and ignore them when doing an "upgrade" in the prerm stage.<br>
    <br>
    So, technically they are not configuration files.  Would another
    approach such as removing them as packaged files and touching the
    files in a postinstall script be preferred?<br>
    <br>
    Regards,<br>
    Rob<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/10/2015 12:05 PM, Burton, Ross
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On 9 March 2015 at 23:52, Rob Woolley
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              <div id=":28m" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">+CONFFILES_${PN}-client
                += "${localstatedir}/lib/<span class="il">nfs</span>/etab
                \<br>
                +                          ${localstatedir}/lib/<span
                  class="il">nfs</span>/rmtab \<br>
                +                          ${localstatedir}/lib/<span
                  class="il">nfs</span>/xtab \<br>
                +                          ${localstatedir}/lib/<span
                  class="il">nfs</span>/statd/state \<br>
                +                          ${sysconfdir}/nfsmount.conf"</div>
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          NFS puts configuration files in /var/lib?  Are files called
          "state" really configuration files?</div>
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        <div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div>
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