/lib/lsb/init-functions vs. /etc/init.d/functions in init scripts?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Aug 28 01:16:59 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 18:37 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FCNewInit/Initscripts
> 
> One aspect of that is to switch from sourcing /etc/init.d/functions to
> sourcing /lib/lsb/init-functions.

Note that the page also says _not_ to switch to using the bits
from /lib/lsb/init-functions yet.  And please don't.  Then your package
will require redhat-lsb which means that you pull in all kinds of
crap[1] which isn't needed for minimal installations.

Jeremy

[1] In the kindest possible form of the term :-)




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