[389-devel] Please Review: Remove instance initconfig script when removing an instance

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Thu Oct 29 22:40:06 UTC 2009


John Dennis wrote:
> Hmm... leaving an init script around after package removal is a bug I 
> recently reported against dogtag (Certificate Management System).
>
> Init scripts should be an actual file belonging to the rpm listed in 
> the %files section of the rpm spec file. In dogtag the init script was 
> being dynamically generated when the rpm was installed. That's not 
> good for two reasons, one is the init script should be available for 
> review and inspection, secondly it's a critical file which is not 
> known to rpm nor is it possible for rpm to accord it config status 
> with special config handing.
>
> I have not looked at the 389 installation scripts or spec file but 
> this patch suggests 389 is doing the same thing dogtag is. Is 389 
> hiding it's init script in a perl generation step at installation?
>
This is more of a config file than an init script.
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