Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: May I voice an opinion against a gratuitous message saying that the behavior has changed but without real useful value? Those darn click-throughs are a large part of the complaints against debian packages during an install. May I suggest that if at all

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: May I voice an opinion against a gratuitous message saying that the behavior has changed but without real useful value? Those darn click-throughs are a large part of the complaints against debian packages during an install. May I suggest that if at all

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-09 Thread Scott Dier
* Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021108 09:52]: * Put a debconf message into the package warning that the behaviour has changed. Write one init script. Allow the user to configure which daemons start at boot-time by editing /etc/default/cfengine2 which contains RUN_CFEXECD=0;

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-09 Thread Scott Dier
* Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021108 09:52]: * Put a debconf message into the package warning that the behaviour has changed. Write one init script. Allow the user to configure which daemons start at boot-time by editing /etc/default/cfengine2 which contains RUN_CFEXECD=0;

Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
A package I maintain, cfengine2, contains three daemons, any or all of which are useful for some people. It also has cfagent, the program that actually does the configuration stuff it's asked to do. At present, none of these daemons are started -- the package has no init script, so it's up to the

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Adrian Phillips
Andrew == Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew * Put a debconf message into the package warning that the Andrew behaviour has changed. Write one init script. Allow the Andrew user to configure which daemons start at boot-time by Andrew editing

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] * Put a debconf message into the package warning that the behaviour has changed. Write one init script. Allow the user to configure which daemons start at boot-time by editing /etc/default/cfengine2 which contains RUN_CFEXECD=0;

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: A package I maintain, cfengine2, contains three daemons, any or all of which are useful for some people. It also has cfagent, the program that actually does the configuration stuff it's asked to do. At present, none of

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: At present, none of these daemons are started -- the package has no init script, so it's up to the user to write one, should he require this. I have been asked to provide an init script in a bug report. This has the problem for me that

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-08 15:49:27 +]: I can see a number of ways out of it, but have no clear idea which is best: * Split the package into its component parts, such that each daemon is in a separate package. Have an init script for each. The admin chooses

Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
A package I maintain, cfengine2, contains three daemons, any or all of which are useful for some people. It also has cfagent, the program that actually does the configuration stuff it's asked to do. At present, none of these daemons are started -- the package has no init script, so it's up to the

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Adrian Phillips
Andrew == Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew * Put a debconf message into the package warning that the Andrew behaviour has changed. Write one init script. Allow the Andrew user to configure which daemons start at boot-time by Andrew editing

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] * Put a debconf message into the package warning that the behaviour has changed. Write one init script. Allow the user to configure which daemons start at boot-time by editing /etc/default/cfengine2 which contains RUN_CFEXECD=0;

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:49:27PM +, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: A package I maintain, cfengine2, contains three daemons, any or all of which are useful for some people. It also has cfagent, the program that actually does the configuration stuff it's asked to do. At present, none of

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Stribblehill wrote: At present, none of these daemons are started -- the package has no init script, so it's up to the user to write one, should he require this. I have been asked to provide an init script in a bug report. This has the problem for me that

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Stribblehill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-08 15:49:27 +]: I can see a number of ways out of it, but have no clear idea which is best: * Split the package into its component parts, such that each daemon is in a separate package. Have an init script for each. The admin chooses