Re: corel

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 06:25:35AM -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> Jeff Licquia said:
> > 
> > RPM can (for an example, look at the sshd packages), but it's
> > discouraged.
> 
> By who?  It's always seemed to me that people don't include these
> scripts due to a simple lack of attention to detail.

Well, yes, that's certainly true.  As I recall, however, Red Hat
discourages doing lots of stuff in the [pre,post]inst scripts,
particularly interacting with the user.

That has advantages, but can only work when you have a centralized
authority managing the distro's install process.  Debian's approach is 
less centralized, but is also a pain (allow anything you want,
including extensive Q&A sessions about what color scheme you want the
AfterStep clock to run with :-).  Debconf is too new to mandate yet,
but it's likely that if debconf becomes a success, it will become part 
of policy, which provides you with the best of both worlds.

> In my ftpd.spec, I have the following:

[code]

> All that makes upgrading a running ftpd pretty painless.  (And yes,
> the idea and probably some of the code was borrowed from the replay
> ssh rpm.  :)

All together now... "Join us now and share the software..." :-)

Most of Red Hat's specs for daemons, I believe, have similar code.

That reminds me - is your FTP server available somewhere?  I didn't
see it on your software page.  Debian is getting into debates on ftp
servers; evidently, all the DFSG-compliant ftp servers they know of
have performance problems.  I immediately thought of adding another
server to the debate... :-)

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