Bug 1069706

Summary:	updates of autofs package overwrite /etc/sysconfig/autofs
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Daniel Bischof <dbischof>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Leap 42.3
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 42.3
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Description Daniel Bischof 2017-11-24 09:06:09 UTC

Updates of the autofs package overwrite /etc/sysconfig/autofs. This is a long-standing issue for me and currently i work around this by fixing the file manually before rebooting my machines. Is there a reason for overwriting the file instead of creating it as autofs.rpmnew?

Comment 1 Jeff Mahoney 2018-10-23 19:27:56 UTC

It's not directly created by the autofs package.  The autofs package replaces the file in sysconfig.autofs and then calls the %{fillup_only} macro.  If your config file is getting overwritten instead of merged, it's a bug in either the macro or the fillup program.

FWIW, I just edited my /etc/sysconfig/autofs to add -d to AUTOFS_OPTIONS, force-reinstalled autofs, and checked to see that the variable was unchanged and it was.

What behavior are you seeing?

At any rate, I'm going to bounce this one back to Basesystem since there's no autofs bug here.

Comment 2 Daniel Bischof 2018-10-24 06:31:20 UTC

There wasn't an autofs package update for quite a while, so this may indeed have been resolved sometime during the last 11 months. I will reopen the ticket, if the problem occurs again. Thanks.