[Fedora-packaging] Packaging Guidelines and Servers

[Jeff Johnston]

Hello,

There doesn't seem to be any clear documentation in the Packaging 
Guidelines concerning servers that aren't meant to start on boot so I 
thought I would ask for clarification.

I found the following in the systemd guidelines:

 > Each package that contains software that wants/needs to start a 
traditional service at boot MUST have a systemd unit file.

which I interpret as meaning a script is not required in the case of a 
server that doesn't mean to start at boot.

Is this correct?

The reason I am asking is that I maintain the eclipse-rse package 
(Remote System Explorer).  In addition to the normal Eclipse plug-ins 
and features, the upstream project also packages a server for linux that 
is used to allow exploring of a linux host via the Eclipse client 
software.  The eclipse-rse package has not packaged the server in the 
past and I wish to do so now.

The server is currently packaged upstream as a tarball to be expanded 
into a single directory (/opt/rseserver is suggested).  It contains perl 
scripts, jar files, and some property files.  The perl scripts are the 
front-end and they end up using java to invoke classes found in the jar 
files.  The property files are used to set certain features, most 
notably, ssl support.  Ssl support requires some additional set-up to 
work properly such as setting up a Java Keystore.

I have split up the tarball into the configuration property files which 
I placed in /etc/sysconfig/rseserver, the java jar files which I put 
into /usr/share/java/eclipse-rse-server and the perl scripts which I 
placed into /usr/share/eclipse-rse-server.  I modified the perl scripts 
so that they would work with the files moved as they were.

Is my break-up of the upstream package reasonable?

Regards,

-- Jeff J.