Automatic configuration files

[vincentbernat]

The configuration files need to be declared with:

config_files '/etc/init.d/serf'

When doing "real" Debian packages, everything in /etc is automatically declared as a configuration file (unless otherwise specified). It would be convenient to have the same thing.

I am still pretty new at fpm/fpm-cookery, so maybe this is a "problem" in fpm instead. Tell me.

[bernd]

I would be careful to add everything in /etc/ as config file by default. What about this?

config_files '/etc'

If an argument to config_files is a directory, everything in that directory will be marked as config file.

What do you think?

[vincentbernat]

Yes, that would ne nice.

[glensc]

would also be nice if config_files supported globs:

config_files '/etc/*.conf'

[vincentbernat]

Note that I pushed a change in FPM recently to ensure that, by default, everything in /etc is a configuration file. This is effective since v1.4.0.

[glensc]

can you spare details (commit link, ticket link) to answer my %config attribute questions here: #118

also is there way to invert your "everything is config" behaviour for some specific files?

[vincentbernat]

See jordansissel/fpm#877

[glensc]

ah, it's debian specific then?

[vincentbernat]

Yes, it is. Didn't know the convention for RPM.

[glensc]

There's no such global convention in RPM so this is probably fine.

[beddari]

See https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/blob/master/templates/rpm.erb#L241