Packages requires /sbin/service.

[Reindl Harald]

Am 18.03.2013 08:27, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 18.03.2013 01:06, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia:
>>> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 2013/3/15 Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn at redhat.com>:
>>>>> After usr move packages should not install files to /sbin. Unfortunately
>>>>> there is a lot of packages requiring /sbin/service, which was recently moved
>>>>> to /usr/sbin/, and these packages were uninstallable. As a workaround I have
>>>>> put Provides: /sbin/service in the initscript spec, but I think that we
>>>>> should do a proper fix.
>>>>>
>>>>> So if your package is in following list, please change your Reguires to
>>>>> /usr/sbin/service.
>>>> ...
>>>>> rtpproxy
>>>>
>>>> Fixed.
>>>
>>> This is a bad, bad, bad idea for any packages that are going to remain
>>> backwards compatible with RHEL, for compilation under EPEL or other
>>> backporting.  Either switch to systemd, or stick with the old location
>>> and allow initscripts to correctly include the old reference. Do not
>>> pick a hallfways "fix" that isn't backwards compatible at all.
>>
>> * Fedora has done UsrMove with F17
>> * Now we have F18
>> * in a short we have F19
>> * RHEL7 will be base on F18/F19
>>
>> ANY reference in Fedora to /sbin and /bin is BOGUS
>> it leads to all sorts of troubles
>> it leads to additional symlink reslovement
> 
> If SysV init style scripts are staying in use, even as a compatibility
> fallback, don't edit the references to them just to prove something.
> It breaks backporting and forward porting and cross-compatibility for
> every existing versoin of RHEL, which are still needed for
> compatibility because *systemd can't be ported back to RHEL 6 or
> earlier.* I've tried, it's a dependency and critical component upgrade
> nightmare

so what - then it needs a lot of if-clauses in the SPEC

it makes pretty no sense to wait 10 years until the
last RHEL version is on systemd and has also UsrMove
to finish this things for fedora

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