[Fedora-packaging] Drafts for next Tuesday

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Tue Mar 25 12:34:59 UTC 2008


On Sunday, 23 March 2008 at 21:01, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 06:22:47PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
[...]
> > tomcat5 package: it's configured to use port 8080 by default.  I don't think 
> > server(webcache) would describe it well at all.  Also, changing servers to 
> 
> 8080 is used for too much stuff to be usefull in a Requires, in my
> opinion. Still should be server(webcache) is a server listening on
> localhost on this port wants to have this ability provided, in case it
> would have make sense.

Instead of "server listening on port foo", we should think of these
as "server which provides foo".

> > run in non-default ports is pretty common and kind of breaks the "contract" 
> > of server(port_name), but perhaps that's just a documentation issue.
> 
> Also the server may not be started.

Precisely.

Regards,
R.

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