On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:29 AM, Volker Fröhlich <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 16:20 -0700, Henrique Junior wrote: >> >> I'm already a Fedora packager (not an experient one) and I'd love to >> put ntop in EPEL (it is in EPEL for EL5). The problem in maintain ntop >> in EPEL6 is that Fedora now uses systemd to manage our services >> instead of sysv. It is a Fedora policy to keep only one spec file and >> that spec is not compatible with EL6 anymore. > > This is certainly no policy and would be impossible in many cases.
There's a recent fedora-devel thread in which maintainers are objecting to an F18 change that *could* force them maintain two spec files. So there isn't a policy of maintaining just one spec file, just a preference not to have to maintain two. You can ship both a systemd service file and a sysvinit rc file when you're using sysvinit and the systemd file'll just sit happily and inactively in "/usr/lib/systemd/system".
