Description of problem: /etc/prelink.cache is written automatically by a cron job. It's not user-editable. /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf and /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf.0 are, so far as I can tell, managed by cupsd. These three files are changed quite often, so add a lot of noise to automatic etckeeper commits, but as they're automatically generated, there's no reason to have them under version control. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): etckeeper-0.54-1.fc15.noarch
Ack, that should be "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf.O", not "/etc/cups/subscriptions.conf.0".
Two different issues here (although both are FHS violations). For /etc/prelink.cache: This will be ignored in the next version of etckeeper, see http://git.kitenet.net/?p=etckeeper.git;a=commit;h=eecbe323 . For /etc/cups/subscriptions.conf (and its backup): this *is* a configuration file. Unfortunately cups constantly updates timestamp and version information though. cups upstream refuses to fix that, see http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3067. For Debian, there's this bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=549673 with patches trying to address the issue. However that would be a cups bug then, not an etckeeper one.
Thanks for the quick response. Shouldn't prelink.cache properly be under /var somewhere? Do you know if anyone has complained to he prelink maintainer about this?
(In reply to comment #3) > Shouldn't prelink.cache properly be under /var somewhere? Probably. > Do you know if anyone has complained to he prelink maintainer about this? A quick search shows Bug 437684 which unfortunately doesn't contain any statement from the maintainer.
etckeeper-0.55-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/etckeeper-0.55-1.fc15
Package etckeeper-0.55-1.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing etckeeper-0.55-1.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/etckeeper-0.55-1.fc15 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
etckeeper-0.55-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.