Proposed guideline for init script files

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 06 March 2007 14:06:40 Steve Dickson wrote:
> Unless I've misunderstood... '%config initscripts' are no longer legal
> so if a customer has valuable information in that script it will be
> lost... But that will be THEIR fault for putting there!!!!! And the
> Fedora community will teach them that lesson... Unfortunately
> the hard way... :-\
>
> With policies like this (i.e. not allowing maintainers to preserver
> existing environments) truly give the appearance that this community
> really don't give a damn about anything but their own way of
> doing things... Very similar to Microsoft... Won't you say?

In case you missed it, existing configuration (if it was properly marked, many 
of our current init scripts do NOT mark them as %config) will be saved when 
the package drops the %config attribute for the init script.  Yes, future 
configuration should go elsewhere, and that is all in documentation.  In 
order to clean up the distribution and make things more consolidated, some 
historical assumptions have to be broken.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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