Re: Proposed guideline for init script files

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On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:18 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 14:38 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:59 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> > > +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.
> 
> cp -a /etc/init.d/foo /etc/init.d/foo-custom
> chkconfig foo off
> chkconfig foo-custom on
This is exactly the same, %config(noreplace) would do automatically.

Ralf


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