Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 10:18:33AM -0400, Brent Verner wrote:
> | If I have scripts /etc/init.d/foo and /etc/init.d/bar in my .lsb
> | package (with names allocated by LANANANANANA [0]), can I just put a "#
> | Required-Start: foo" in bar, or do I also need a "# Provides: foo" in foo?
> you must have a Provides: line if the script Provides a facility
> that any other script Requires, otherwise, how is the dependency
> to be resolved?
By looking at the name of the script. ``Facility names may also be init.d
script names'' -- it's just not clear if that means that init.d script names
*are* facility names, or if it's merely okay to use the same names twice,
independently.
Cheers,
aj
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