[Fedora-packaging] [Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Tom Callaway]

On 04/12/2012 05:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

systemd doesn't understand non-standard commands. "service" passes
through, but that was determined to be confusing.

If you want to make an initscript stub, you can, but it needs to be in a
separate subpackage, per the guidelines. We're trying not to have unit
files and sysv initscripts in the same package, whether they're stubs or
not.

~tom

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