Proposed guideline for init script files

Gianluca Sforna giallu at gmail.com
Wed Feb 28 08:33:41 UTC 2007


On 2/27/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> The Packaging Committee has been discussing guidelines for init scripts for a
> while.  Currently there is a split between init scripts being marked
> as %config and many that aren't.  We (the PC) with input from various folks
> feel it is best to not mark init scripts as %config, and instead promote
> configuration to happen in an /etc/sysconfig/<init> file.  Mostly the reason
> being that init scripts are just that, scripts to run and not config files to
> edit.

Will rpmlint be amended to report a warning (error?) for this?




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