status of initscript conversions to lsb standard
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Aug 13 12:42:33 UTC 2007
Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote :
>
>> Some time ago many bugs where filed against packages with initscripts, asking
>> to make these initscripts lsb compliant.
>>
>> After that there was some discussion if this was really a necessary operation,
>> as it wasn't sure yet if we would be switching to a startup replacement which
>> requires lsb compliance scripts. The outcome of the discussion then was to wait
>> with converting the scripts till things would be more clear.
>>
>> Are things more clear now, are we going to switch init, and to a version which
>> makes these changes necessary, or should I close those bugs open against my
>> packages?
>
> I have the exact same doubts myself :-)
>
> I really think the "Unanswered questions" from the wiki page should be
> addressed first :
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit/Initscripts
>
> As an example, I still don't know what the correct/best syntax is for a
> service to not be run by default in any runlevels :
>
> - No "Default-Stop" or "Default-Start"?
> - "Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6"?
> - "Default-Start:" and "Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6"?
> - Something else?
I've gone with `No "Default-Stop" or "Default-Start"' so far.
I tried `"Default-Start:" and "Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6"' but IIRC
rpmlint complained about it.
Paul.
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