The new Fedora Project

The new Fedora Project

Posted Sep 25, 2003 15:31 UTC (Thu) by heinlein (guest, #1029)
In reply to: The new Fedora Project by hazelsct
Parent article: The new Fedora Project

The RPM alternative is to live in config file hell, where you use emacs/vi and manpages to configure each package by hand, only to have every single one of your configs borked on the next upgrade! Manually updating several dozen config files to new formats is a real PITA...

That's less true with each Red Hat release. The /etc/sysconfig directory is becoming home to localizations that can be kept through an update or maintained with a tool like cfengine.

Plus, rpm package maintainers are paying more attention to marking configuration files as such so that new packages don't stomp on customized config files.

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