Cfengine

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Tue Mar 8 00:02:03 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:28 -0800, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> I've updated David's cfengine spec a bit to make the changes Michael
> mentioned.  I've put an update SRPM and spec file here:
> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jeff/extras/cfengine-2.1.13-1.src.rpm
> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jeff/extras/cfengine.spec
> 
> I do have a general question about chkconfig/services for extras RPMs: What
> is the best practice for adding new services - should they be turned on/off
> by default?  Specifically, I think that cfengine (the client) should be
> turned on in chkconfig (it is currently turned off explicitly).

Generally services should default to being off. Cfengine requires
additional configuration to do anything at all so it doesn't make sense
to turn it on by default anyway. Explicitly from %post is a bit weird
however and unnecessary as well since the cf*d files already default to
off. 

	- Panu -




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