On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:10:45 +0200, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In other words: A) There's one postinst script that invokes "systemctl enable" B) There's another one that does not invoke systemctl, and leaves the service off C) There's a third one that invokes "systemctl preset" In F16/F17 A and B are used. Some packages use A, most packages use B. In F18 only C is used. All packages use C. In F18 we have a macro that implements C. We have no macro that implements A or B. Now, you are asking me to provide a macro with the same name and functionality in F16/F17 as the one we introduced for F18, right? But how could we do this? If on F18 the macro implements C, what would it implement on F16/F17? Would it implement A? If so, it would be useless for all packages whose service needs to stay off after installation. Would it implement B? If so, it would be useless for all packages whose service needs to be enabled after installation. Of course we could introduce new macros for both A and B, so that we'd have three macros, covering all three operations. But who'd be helped with that? We should introduce new stuff only for new distros, and maybe backport it. But this would be adding completely new stuff to old distros that makes no sense anymore on new distros, and hence we shouldn't do it.
I believe the suggestions was to have macros for A and B that did A and B on f16/f17 and did the same as C on F18+. That way a package could use a single macro on all current releases. Then when f18 was the oldest current release, packages could switch to using macro C for all releases.
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