on /etc/sysconfig

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Lennart Poettering
<mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 18.07.11 23:26, Miloslav Trmač (mitr at volny.cz) wrote:
>> I can't see a reason to discuss /etc/sysconfig as a single unit, nor
>> to argue for removal of /etc/sysconfig a single unit, nor to try to
>> form a definite consensus about /etc/sysconfig.
>
> Oh, it definitely can be discussed as single unit. Check the Fedora
> packaging guidelines:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SysVInitScript
<snip>

>> * _various_ software: Each file needs to be discussed separately, in
>> the context of the software that uses it.
>> /etc/sysconfig/{crond,iptables,nspluginwrapper} have nothing in
>> common, and need to be considered separately together with the
>> software that uses these files.
>
> Nah, not true. The packaging guidelines say explicitly what you should
> place in that directory.
They only say that SysV scripts should be placed in that directory,
not that SysV files are the only, or primary, content.  I have already
provided a counterexample above.
   Mirek