Mass changes to packaging

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 21.08.12 16:52, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg at gmail.com) wrote:

> On 08/21/2012 02:52 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >However, the person who is sending these bugs reports is
> >(a) in a much better position to change the packages because they
> >understand the problem and the solution, and (b) ought to take on this
> >work because that's part of whatever feature/cleanup/etc they are
> >proposing, instead of pushing part of that work off to everyone else.
> 
> That's how I *initially* though the feature process worked as in the
> feature owner always has to do all the work.
> 
> Then again I suspect not many maintainers will do this change since
> if I'm not mistaken it a) means they have to have separated spec
> files for <F18 and b) will break everybody's upgrade path since if
> I'm not mistaken preset *resets* units enable/disablement *again* (
> it happens when the legacy sysv to systemd migration takes place
> )...

No, presets don't reset existing enablement/disablement status.

Presets only matter with the initial installation of a package and when
a package is converted from sysv to systemd, but do not matter if a
package already uses systemd unit files, or just converts non-macro
scriptlets to macro scriptlets.

Lennart

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