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. > > Please take a moment to read through > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/InitScripts and provide some > feedback. If nobody has major objections or reasonable adjustments, this > will become policy in a week's time. I apologize for the slightly late reply. I've been trying to get caught up on email. I do like this idea with two provisos: 1) That a recommendation be put in about each init script needs to include an OPTIONS or PROGOPTS or similar variable on its command-line. This allows customization through addition of command-line arguments. 2) That initscripts be discouraged from putting command-line arguments directly in the scripts. Instead they should be placed in the variable from part 1) in /etc/sysconfig/progname. Putting command-line arguments directly into the init script means that I can't remove those arguments without modifying the init script. There could be some exceptions to this guideline. An example would be something to set the uid of the program in question, such as adding "-u named" in the script to start named. To my current memory, these two situations cover every time that I have needed to modify an init script. (There might be others I can't think of, though.) -- John Guthrie guthrie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
