[lsb-discuss] configuration files for ISVs

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, George Kraft wrote:

> http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/

trying to look I see a domain that expires in 8 days, and no 
website return here

> Is there anything comparable to libconfig that ISVs could use?

By coincidence, earlier this week, I was tallying files marked 
to RPM in a minimal CentOS install, preparatory to seeing 
which were applications were ldap aware so as to potentially 
be able to source configs across the wire, so to speak) and 
which were not.  I found:

[herrold at centos-5 configs-project]$ wc rpm-Va-post-touch-configs rpm-qac.txt
   230   230  6166 rpm-Va-post-touch-configs
   301   303  7671 rpm-qac.txt

The first found by 'touching' each file in an entire install, 
and having rpm tell me config files with a changed timestamp; 
the second by asking rpm what it thought directly.  As such it 
includes such obvious candidates as:
 	/etc/fstab /etc/group and such
and less obvious ones as:
 	/etc/bashrc /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/ld.so.conf

Substantailly all on CentOS are in /etc/  -- the remaining:

[herrold at centos-5 configs-project]$ grep -v ^/etc rpm-qac.txt
/root/.bash_logout
/root/.bash_profile
/root/.bashrc
/root/.cshrc
/root/.tcshrc
/sbin/installkernel
/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules
/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
/usr/share/info/dir
/var/lib/logrotate.status
/var/lib/misc/prelink.force
/var/lib/misc/prelink.full
/var/lib/misc/prelink.quick
/var/lib/rpm/Basenames
 	... all remaining down that tree, except
/var/log/prelink/prelink.log
[herrold at centos-5 configs-project] $

Just a datapoint.

-- Russ herrold