When a new user logs in, ~/.rhn-applet.conf is created by the applet. What this means for Sabayon (http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon), is that appears to the sysadmin as if the applet's configuration has changed, when clearly it hasn't. There shouldn't be any real need to write the configuration file if no configuration has actually been changed. Attaching a patch to do that. Details: - All ConfigFile subclasses now load the config in their constructor, just like ConfigFile itself - We don't save the config file when it doesn't already exist Seems to work fine here
Created attachment 116942 [details] rhn-applet-2.1.17-dont-create-rhn-applet-conf-at-login.patch
looks okay at first glance, I'll apply it and see what breaks
Whats the status on this report?
Looks like alikins thought the patch looked okay, was going to commit it and it fell through the cracks
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Closing per previous comment.