bz532373, was Re: tor dependency insanity.

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Mar 4 12:56:13 UTC 2010


Enrico Scholz wrote:
> %post can give out something; e.g. '%post failed' which would happen
> here due to the redhat-lsb bug.  I just give out a more useful message
> than '%post failed' which helps people to identify the problem.

%post MUST *NEVER* FAIL!!!

The mandatory (MUST) guideline is that %post MUST NOT OUTPUT anything, and 
that it just plain MUST NOT fail.

The fact that redhat-lsb is buggy is also only relevant because you're using 
the LSB stuff instead of using plain initscripts as REQUIRED by our 
guidelines. You MUST use plain initscripts, not -lsb, -upstart or -bikeshed. 
And those initscripts belong directly in the package, not some subpackage

        Kevin Kofler



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