Re: [F29 only] Dropping requirements for initscripts package from specfiles

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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 3:56 PM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
<dkaspar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> I'm working on making Fedora being able to function completely without the
> 'initscripts' package (hopefully) some day in the future. I have done some
> cleanup in initscripts recently, and I would like to ask maintainers of
> packages listed below to check if their package(s) still really need the
> initscripts package to function properly (for any reason).
>
> It seems that for many packages the requirement of initscripts is just a
> leftover from past. If the package does not need the initscripts any longer,
> please remove the requirement in Rawhide (F29) and forward. (Do not backport
> this change into F28 or F27, it would break things.)
>
> NOTE: In case you are depending on initscripts because of networking scripts
> (ifup/ifdown, etc.), then you will need to update your specfile to depend
> directly on new package 'network-scripts' (instead of 'initscripts').

It would be useful to do a similar change for chkconfig and split out
the alternatives binaries into a separate package as a bunch of the
chkconfig stuff is directly related to sys V and the initscripts
package.

Peter

> I've opened bug reports for each of the packages listed here, and created a
> tracking BZ for it:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1592330
>
> List of packages still depending on initscripts (some of them were already
> fixed):
>  3proxy
>  barry
>  boomaga-selinux
>  Canna
>  clamsmtp
>  conmux
>  crossfire-selinux
>  cyphesis
>  device-mapper-multipath
>  dpm-xrootd
>  ebnetd-common
>  exim
>  exim-clamav
>  foghorn
>  freeipa-client
>  glpi
>  groonga-munin-plugins
>  groonga-server-gqtp
>  iipsrv
>  isdn4k-utils
>  kbd
>  libstoragemgmt
>  mailman-3
>  nightview-server
>  node
>  ntop
>  numad
>  omniORB
>  openslp-server
>  os-net-config
>  pcp
>  pcsc-cyberjack
>  pgbouncer
>  plymouth
>  ppp
>  pure-ftpd-selinux
>  ratbox-services
>  sagator-core
>  spacewalk-config
>  spamassassin
>  spawn-fcgi
>  sslogger
>  systemtap-initscript
>  systemtap-server
>  tigervnc-server-minimal
>  torque-mom
>  torque-scheduler
>  torque-server
>  trafficserver
>  varnish
>  vdsm
>  vhostmd
>  vpnc
>  vte
>  vte291
>  vte3
>  wine-desktop
>  xboxdrv
>
> Thank you, and best regards! :)
>
> David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
> Associate Software Engineer
> Brno, Czech Republic
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