Tom Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 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.
regards, tom lane