[Mageia-dev] rootcerts: Are the certs really "config" files?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 07/01/13 11:51 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
> 
> I just updated rootcerts package on my cauldron box and got about 50 ish
> .rpmnew files for changed pem files.
> 
> It seems mostly indentation changes (*sigh*) but it made me think - Are
> these really config files? I'd expect these to not be marked as config
> even if they are kept in /etc/ Ideally I'd rather see them kept in
> /usr/share anyway as that seems more appropriate, but that's likely not
> possible without causing a lot of pain.


Just for completeness, I started this thread over on systemd ML which
talked about a "CoreOS" goal of being able to boot with an empty /etc

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel/7908

I've been slowly trying to push this anyway (i.e. moving all shipped
udev rules and tmpfiles to /usr) but there is a long, long way to go
here to get this fully working (and a crap-load of packages to fix up in
this regards so it won't really happen anytime soon).

Still, it would make running a chrooted/multi-root/shared-/usr system
much more manageable and I think it's something we should all keep in
mind as we package and develop things :)

Happy hacking.

Col

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