On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 07:56:59AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Tom Lane <t...@redhat.com> wrote: > > The current packaging guidelines require packages that update from sysv > > init scripts to systemd scripts to provide conversion triggers that are > > fired on the basis of an NVR comparison: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Packages_migrating_to_a_systemd_unit_file_from_a_SysV_initscript > > > > That is, we assume that we know that all releases with NVR < some-cutoff > > use initscripts and all releases with NVR >= same-cutoff use systemd. > > The comments in the above-linked page acknowledge that this means it's > > impossible to upgrade the package to a newer upstream release in > > pre-systemd Fedora branches. (You can't just move the cutoff value > > forward, because then an upgrade in F16 or later will mistakenly re-fire > > the update trigger.) > > I'm not sure if this was the best things to do but on the mythtv > package on RPM Fusion I added an additional requirement for > %triggerrun that the fedora release >= 16 by enclosing the whole > scriptlet in a %if 0{?fedora}...%endif, which seemed to make sense as > we're not supposed to change/convert within a release. I had to do > this because the same EVR is used for all supported Fedora releases. > > Is there something wrong with this approach? > If by additional you mean instead of, that approach sounds acceptable although I haven't spent as much time thinking about what caveats might occur there as with the other proposals.
-Toshio
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