On Wednesday 28 July 2004 12.55, Chirag Kantharia wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:57:02AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Thanks for the url. I'm not sure how that solves my problem. As I > understand you, I need to convince the upstream maintainer to switch > to LSB style initscript. I can try doing that. The initscript has Yes, that was my idea - so everybody can use the same init script. > some weird function, which might be optionally used by the user, to > exchange ssh keys, so that the dump is copied to the server using ssh > (scp). The function has no place in the initscript, but RedHat As far as I see it, an lsb compliant init script can still do whatever it wants as long as it does the right things for the start/stop/... arguments, so that shouldn't be a problem. (And you don't have to use that part, after all) > prefers to do it, that way. I've placed that key exchange, as part of > postinst. > > If, for some reason, the upstream maintainer doesn't wish to modify > the initscript, to adhere to LSB recommendations, then, do I have an > alternative way to resort to? I guess just keep your own init script. You may want to document in README.Debian that the ssh key functionality of the RH script is done differently, just in case the Debian package is used by a user used to the other script. greetings -- vbi -- Email returned to sender -- insufficient voltage.
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