On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 06:10:50AM -0500, Scott M. Dier wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > > * LSB says that nobody's group should be called "nobody", while we have > > "nogroup". Bah. > > Why not just refrence these two by UID/GID numerically? Most dists use > the same numbers. no they don't. redhat uses 99, debian uses 65534, as does the BSD's. > Since init scripts in rc?.d are just links, why not have a directory > called 'vendor' and have vendors create directories for their name of > their company under it and put their init scripts under it. Have the > vendor-dirs assigned instead to give them a namespace. Have the init > handling scripts handle namespace collisions at the rc?.d level. When > removing just look for the symlink that refrences the script your > looking for. don't forget about file-rc, although your proposal isn't necessarily incompatible with that... i think a seperate directory is rather gross though. unless you just specify that all proprietary crap just go in /opt/packagename which is what lsb should have done in the first place. then this whole packaging thing would be moot too: cd /opt && tar -zxf proprietary-crap.tar.gz -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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