Re: [Fedora-packaging] Packaging/SysVInitScript wiki page has wrong description for LSB header Required-Stop:

[Tom Callaway]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:09 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>  There's a rather big error in the wiki description of the LSB 
>  "Required-Stop:" header.
>  
>  The wiki says:
>     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript
>  
>     "The # Required-Stop: line in the LSB Header lists any boot facilities
>      which must be stopped before shutdown of this service can commence."
>  
>  The LSB says:
>   
>  http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_2.0.0/LSB-Core/LSB-Core/initscrcomc...
>  
>     "... the "Required-Stop:" header defines which facilities shall still
>      be available during the shutdown of that service. Hence, the init
>      script system should avoid stopping shell scripts which provide those
>      facilities until this shell script is stopped."
>  
>  This is just about the opposite of what the wiki ways.
>  
>  I think a sane rule of thumb is that the parameters needed for 
>  "Required-Stop:" are likely to be the same as for "Required-Start:".
>  
>  The description of the "Should-Stop:" header is similarly wrong. 
I've corrected these mistakes, thanks!

(Although, I think they were possibly more useful the way that they were
incorrectly written... ;)

~spot