Tom Lane (tgl@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Here is the latest set of changes to the Fedora Packaging Guidelines: > > --- > > Packages which have SysV initscripts that contain 'non-standard service > > commands' (commands besides start, stop, reload, restart, or > > try-restart) must convert those commands into standalone helper scripts. > > Systemd does not support non-standard unit commands. > > I was a bit surprised to read this, because in recent versions systemd's > service command supports nonstandard verbs just fine; it'll pass an > unrecognized verb through to the initscript, if there is one. Is that > functionality going to be removed again? > > Background: after having done what the above text directs me to, > I had gotten beaten up over the fact that "service postgresql initdb" > no longer worked, and hence reinstituted a stub initscript that only > handles the nonstandard actions of the old one. Which works fine, or > at least it did as of last month when I last tried it. So now I'm in > violation of the guidelines for having tried to keep my users happy, > and I'm not happy, especially since the stated rationale is a falsehood. If you're asking if that bit of /sbin/service is going to be removed (redirection to /etc/init.d/<foo> for nonstandard commands), no. Bill -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
