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

[roudoudou]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Guillaume Rousse
<Guillaume.Rousse@inria.fr> wrote:
> 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
>
>
ok, thanks ! Anssi has already modified the initscript sample given in
this how to ( http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/index.php?title=Development/Howto/Initscripts&diff=11180&oldid=11163
)
I removed the useless status()  function definied in this sample then
( http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/index.php?title=Development/Howto/Initscripts&diff=11181&oldid=11180
)

>  > * looks like "echo" call should be replaced by "gprintf" ?
>  echo is automatically substituted by gprintf during rpm building.
>
Ok, thanks for the hint !