[Server-devel] Anaconda install - conflicts over ifcfg-eth0

[Jerry Vonau]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Executive version: I am preparing a package that provides an
> ifcfg-eth0 file - and finding that Anaconda overwrites it...
> 
> If the package says %config{noreplace}
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 then anaconda installs the
> file as an .rpmnew file. On the other hand, if I remove the
> '{noreplace}' option, anaconda writes an .rpmorig file with its
> settings _and also_ overwrites the ifcfg-eth0 file. The result is that
> cmp ifcfg-eth0{,.rpmorig}  is true.
> 
> This looks to me like an anaconda bug :-/ Are there reasonable ways to
> make this work? Can I tell anaconda that the network config used
> during install is _not_ to be saved permanently?
> 
> As a workaround, I can overwrite the file on %post but that gets nastier...
> 
> Note! This package is not meant for Fedora proper, naturally. It is a
> configuration package for the OLPC School Server, with (mostly) good
> reasons to do the wild things it does :-)

Anaconda by default doesn't create an ifcfg-eth0 file, network-manager 
doesn't need one to work. Are you using a kickstart file? Sounds like 
the net config is coming from that.

Jerry