[Pm-utils] RFC - PATCH to functions.in to support Slackware init

[Victor Lowther]

On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 16:33 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Stefan Seyfried <seife at suse.de> wrote:
> > Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >
> >> Robby's point about ambiguous service names is valid, though. Right
> >> now, we only call stopservice() for ntpd, but it could be called ntp
> >> or nettime or anything else since there's no convention for that.
> >
> > But then, the hook that calls stopservice belongs in the ntpd package and not
> > in pm-utils anyway. And again, the packager of the to-be-stopped service knows
> > how his init script is named.
> 
> Not necessarily when calling init scripts. Each distro usually rolls
> their own init script. You can check if suse is using an init script
> from the ntp tarball or if someone has just written one and put it in
> your CVS. My money is that it is a separate source file suse
> maintains. As Robby points out, they use rc.messagebus for dbus while
> it might be dbus on one system or dbus-daemon or messagebus somewhere
> else.
> 
> Oh, I see. You mean the distro's packager, not the upstream packager.
> Yes, that would make sense. But my guess is that it needs to be
> precluded by actually getting an upstream package to ship a hooks
> file, which hasn't been done yet. I do agree that within a
> distribution, it would make sense if the hooks file shipped with the
> package it was associated with.

Along those lines, how does pkgconfig and autoconf interact?  The docs
that I have been able to find have been of little assistance, and I have
made little progress in trying to understand by example using
NetworkManager.

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Victor Lowther
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