packages: openvpn/openvpn.init, openvpn/openvpn.spec - rel.3 - no need to c...

Tomasz Pala gotar at polanet.pl
Sun Mar 11 23:52:00 CET 2012


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:07:38 +0100, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:

>> And our current check doesn't pass when sb sets up networking manually.
> 
> If someone does that correctly then it does. touch  /var/lock/subsys/network 
> is part of that requirement.

Which might be not possible, e.g. on r/o drive (consider some damage
recovery).

>> It shouldn't - we shall drop all these dumb checks unless package
>> REALLY needs networking to work properly.
> 
> You cannot tell which require this and which don't. This depends on local 
> configuration in most cases.

It doesn't matter - if service does require some interface, starting it
would simply fail. Our 'check' just prevents a try to start. It makes to
sense.

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Tomasz Pala <gotar at pld-linux.org>


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