Bug 50307

Summary:	psprint.conf file is clobbered on each upgrade
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Dave Richards <drichard>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Petr Mladek <pmladek>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	pmladek, robinson.libreoffice, timar74
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	difficultyInteresting, easyHack, skillScript
Version:	3.5.3 release
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:	target:3.6.0
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:

Description Dave Richards 2012-05-24 05:56:30 UTC

This issue has been around for a long time and behaved the same way on OpenOffice.  The RPM package should not clobber the existing psprint.conf file each time an update is performed.  For those that use the unmodified print engines it's no big deal, but if you have spent time with customizations and spadmin you can lose lots of work.  Requesting please that this file not overwrite if one already exists.   I don't believe the file format has change in many years and it should be OK to just create something like psprint.conf.rpmdefault in that folder.

Comment 1 Petr Mladek 2012-05-28 03:19:28 UTC

The standard solution is to mark files as %config in the RPM file list.

It seems that it happens when we add add "CONFIGFILE" into the "Style" line into the file metadata in scp2.

Comment 2 Not Assigned 2012-05-28 03:24:53 UTC

Petr Mladek committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=176b01d488b8f243a47d140cad7e721b4dbb941f

do not replace modified psprint.conf from rpm packages (fdo#50307)

Comment 3 Petr Mladek 2012-05-29 02:44:51 UTC

Fixed in master for 3.6 release.

Comment 4 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-16 00:40:13 UTC

Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (EasyHack DifficultyInteresting SkillScript)
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