Re: [Cooker] please update initscript howto ( http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Initscripts )

[Guillaume Rousse]

roudoudou a écrit :
> Hi,
> When trying to make some rpm package, i've found valuable information
> in the initscript howto on wiki.mandriva.com (
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Initscripts ) . But it
> seems that there's some minor issue with this how to:
> * it seems that the status() primitive suggested
> (http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Initscripts#Second_part_-_Primitives)
>  leads to infinite recursion loop. Indeed, a status() function is
> defined in the initscript which try to call the
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions::status() function which it already
> redefined
there is no namespace in shell: you can not define your own status
function without replacing the one from /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

> * looks like "echo" call should be replaced by "gprintf" ?
echo is automatically substituted by gprintf during rpm building.

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