Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Unsorted init script tuning

[Al Chu]

Hey Jan,

A thought just came up in regards to your 9/9 patch.

If we were to consistently prefix "freeipmi-" in front of everything,
would that also make us LSB compliant?  And perhaps make all parties
happy?

Al

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:01 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
> Hey Jan,
> 
> Thanks for the patches.  Because this is a pretty big change (will be
> bigger if I use patch 9/9), I'll only apply to the head branch.  I hope
> to release 0.8.1 beta in the not to distant future.
> 
> As a whole, I think all the patches are fine.  I actually don't have an
> issue for patch 9/9.  However, it conflicts with a previous Redhat
> patch :-)  I had the naming scheme you propose in the patch (not having
> freeipmi prefixed in front of init scripts and such).  However, Ben
> Woodard @ Redhat said I had to put the prefix in front to pass rpmlint
> which requires the prefix for naming daemons and init scripts.
> 
> I've CCed Ben.  Perhaps you guys can debate what takes priority.  I'm
> fine with either one.  But since two Redhat requests are conflicting,
> I'm not sure which distro rule wins out :-)
> 
> Al
> 
> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 12:45 +0200, Jan Safranek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > here comes short sequence of various small and stupid fixes in bmc-watchdog 
> > and
> > ipmidetectd initscripts. The goal is to make them LSB-compliant, with proper
> > exit codes and actions, which is required by Fedora guidelines.
> > 
> > I am maintainer of Fedora packages and I can have these changes there as 
> > Fedora
> > patches, but you might find some of them interesting. I intentionally made 
> > the
> > patches as small as possible, so you can pick only some of them.
> > 
> > Feel free to comment any of the patches, I expect you won't like all of them
> > (especially the last one :).
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> > 
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