tor dependency insanity.

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 2 18:48:27 UTC 2010


Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> > > I'm not quite sure why it needs separate lsb/upstart init scripts
> > > anyway. Don't most of our packages just include one initscript with both
> > > bits in the headers?
> > 
> > No. A package could have either a SystemV init script or an upstart job
> > file. (Note that we don't recommend people push upstart job files for their
> > services yet, but since when have people listened...)
> 
> oh, yeah, that's right. we have SysV scripts with the LSB stuff in the
> headers. no need to depend on redhat-lsb for that, though, so far as I
> can figure?

If you use lsb-defined headers, no.
If you use lsb-defined init script functions, yes.

Bill


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