Bug 61334

Summary: ifup and ifdown are config files?
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Chris Ricker 2002-03-18 01:01:30 UTC 
I was looking at all the configuration files on the system ($ rpm -qac), and
noticed something weird:

[kaboom@skuld kaboom]$ rpm -qac | grep "^/sbin/if"
/sbin/ifdown
/sbin/ifup
[kaboom@skuld kaboom]$ 

Is there a reason why /sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown are flagged in the spec file
as being configuration files?
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-03-21 03:56:18 UTC 
Hm.... not that I recall. Let me see if I can find a reason somewhere.
Comment 2 Jay Turner 2002-03-21 12:52:18 UTC 
Still seeing this with initscripts-6.58-1
Comment 3 Chris Ricker 2002-05-05 15:44:03 UTC 
Still seeing this with 7.3 gold
Comment 4 Chris Ricker 2002-07-10 02:34:39 UTC 
Still true with beta3 milan
Comment 5 Chris Ricker 2003-02-20 05:22:00 UTC 
still true w/ beta5 phoebe
Comment 6 Matthias Saou 2006-06-29 12:59:33 UTC 
Still true with Fedora Core 5 :-)

Maybe at one point it was considered "normal" to edit the ifup/ifdown scripts,
and they were marked as %config in order to not get changes lost when
initscripts got updated? Bill, if you can't figure why they're marked %config,
maybe you could just go and remove the tag for both, as it doesn't seem to make
much sense.
Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2006-06-29 18:19:47 UTC 
Done in CVS, will be in the next build.