On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:59 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:37 -0500, Jesse Keating 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. As such I've drafted a proposal for the guidelines and the PC approved > > it. There is time now for a wider audience to review the proposed change and > > comment. > > +1. In general if you have to edit an init startup file, it's a bug. Exactly ... and what can users do about it? Edit them. With them not being marked %config users can only hope that RH/upstream fixes it before the next update blows away their edits :( > Configuration should be in /etc/sysconfig/foo. But real bugs and missing features init scripts suffer from can't. As I've said many times before, I consider not marking init scripts %config a regression, Fedora will regret. Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
