Hi all, As many of you will have seen there is an ongoing effort to move config files which currently sit in /etc to /usr (where possible). I just wanted to provide a quick overview of the wider changes and how this affects new packages. DBUS-1 conf files: - Currently in /etc/dbus-1/system.d - Moving to /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d - If this is a change to an existing package, please file a SUSE security bug before sending it to Factory (example: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204055) - If this is a new package, please try to move the file to the /usr location and then you'll have to create a security bug anyway for Factory inclusion. pam.d files: - Currently in /etc/pam.d - Moving to /usr/lib/pam.d - Please use the %_pam_vendordir macro - These were previously moving to /usr/etc/pam.d (SUSE location) but then upstream created a vendor location so we follow that, files located in /usr/etc will still be read. XDG autostart files: - Currently in /etc/xdg/autostart - Moving to /usr/etc/xdg/autostart - There previously was an issue where files located in /usr/etc weren't being detected by the systemd generator, this was fixed (ref: https://github.com/openSUSE/aaa_base/pull/118) (bug: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201802) System user accounts and groups: - Currently created by useradd in %pre - Moving to creation based on /usr/lib/sysusers.d conf file (systemd / sysuser-shadow) - Information on how to create a sysusers.d file can be found at: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines#Users_and_Groups Notes: - When moving existing packages config files to /usr, you will require a section in the %pre and %posttrans sections to restore the admin's copy of the conf file (ref: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_UsrEtc#Moving_of_configuration_fi...). Although this doesn't really apply to the dbus-1 changes since admins typically would have no reason to overwrite them. - Don't use %config or %config(noreplace) on the /usr version of the file More information on other smaller changes and packaging information can be found here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_UsrEtc P.S. This was a quick general guide, so some information may be slightly wrong. -- Callum Farmer gmbr3@opensuse.org openSUSE - gmbr3