[csw-maintainers] Bugreport on alternatives with NFS-shared /opt/csw

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Wed Mar 24 18:38:04 CET 2010


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> It's convoluted due to the fact that the upstream package is chkconfig
> which includes other tools for RHEL-based distros in addition to the
> alternatives bit.
>

i'm not surprised. which is why I reiterate my suggestion that we
should merely duplicate the user-level interface (and only the bits we
actually care about), and thus avoid extra baggage.


>> Although really, it seems like such a relatively small set of
>> functionality that we actually care about, that we'd probably be
>> better just tossing it and doing our own implementation in a
>> system-normal-shell script. already, a good chunk of what we care
>> about in it, is in "our own code", by virtue of the class action
>> script wrappers.
>
> While that may be, somebody still has to actually care enough to do
> it.
>

yah. and while I CARE about it, I dont have enough TIME to do it :(


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