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Spring Cleanup
As part of the cleanup efforts in initscripts package, there are several files that should be either completely removed (because they are no longer relavant, etc.), or moved to different (and more relevant) packages.
Many of the files end up in initscripts before, because they were needed for Fedora distribution, and nobody cared much about where they should really belong. If we want to move forward with our plans for initscripts, we need to solve these files first.
Another reason to make this change is to remove some dependencies of other packages on initscripts. Preferably, we would like to get to a point in the future, where the initscripts package could be uninstalled for the users that wish to do so (on their own risk).
Since not all of the files might have a good package candiate where they should be moved, we expect to create a new package for Fedora/RHEL, where files like it should live. The work name for this package should be randc
(read random crap) for now.
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ChangeLog - created automatically in Makefile - this is no longer needed (use
git log
for these purposes) -
NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/00-netreport | src/netreport.c | src/netreport.1 | initscripts.tmpfiles.d - the
netreport
concept is quite outdated, and IMHO not sane to use at all - examples/networking/ - examples here can be misleading, because they are not comprehensive enough (IMHO they are quite useless)
- changes.ipv6 - 15 years old "changelog" for IPv6
- ipv6-6to4.howto - 15 years old tutorial for 6to4 setup
- ipv6-tunnel.howto - 16 years old tutorial for IPv6 tunnel
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sysvinitfiles - we tell everybody to use
systemd
's unit files if needed, we really shouldn't ship old tutorial on writing SysV init files - sys-unconfig - from what I have been told, this is concept has been obsoleted, and using this script is potentionally dangerous
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src/consoletype.c | consoletype.1 - this has been used only by lang.sh & lang.csh files, and it should be OK to use
tty
instead in those files. However, it's possible people are still using it, so we have to be ready to bring it back if necessary. (Maybe issue a transition period with deprecation warning?) -
src/genhostid.c | src/genhostid.1 - the
/etc/hostid
has been superseeded withsystemd
's/etc/machine-id
. - src/ifup.8
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src/usleep.c | src/usleep.1 - the
sleep
utility now supports microseconds as well. We have been displaying deprecation warning for last 2 Fedora releases, but some people might still rely on it. - src/shvar.c | src/shvar.h - no longer used by anything in initscripts
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lang.sh | lang.csh - these should be moved into
setup
package (see fedora-devel mailing list why we still need it in Fedora)