dbus: Removing unmaintained distro-specific init scripts

David Sommerseth dbus at lists.topphemmelig.net
Thu Jul 6 14:52:36 UTC 2017


On 06/07/17 14:56, David King wrote:
> On 2017-07-06 21:19, Simon Lees <sflees at suse.de> wrote:
>> On 06/07/17 20:51, Simon McVittie wrote:
>>> However, I suspect that in practice downstreams will find it easier
>>> to maintain their init-scripts "out of tree", like I do for the LSB
>>> init script provided by Debian[1]. This has the advantage that the
>>> downstream distributor can make full use of any vendor-specific tools,
>>> like Debian's start-stop-daemon, to make their init script better.
>>
>> openSUSE / SUSE Linux Enterprise has already stopped shipping init
>> scripts as we have no use.
> 
> Similarly, in Fedora and RHEL, the init script is removed as part of the
> build process, so the "redhat" init script has probably not been used
> for many years.

Does this also account for RHEL6, which is _not_ systemd based?


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kind regards,

David Sommerseth


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