Re: Installing ntpd.service

2019-03-21 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 3/20/19 2:17 PM, Daniel Franke via devel wrote: > Everything about init scripts should be assumed distro-specific and > 'make install' should not be attempting to touch them. Leave that up > to distro packagers. Depending on how tightly one defines "init script", this isn't an init script, it's

Re: Installing ntpd.service

2019-03-21 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Richard! On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:21:39 -0500 Richard Laager via devel wrote: > On 3/20/19 1:57 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > > More interesting to me, what do you do if it is NOT identical? > > > > Many people dual install NTP Classic and NTPsec. Overwriting the > > service file of t

Re: Installing ntpd.service

2019-03-21 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 3/20/19 1:57 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > More interesting to me, what do you do if it is NOT identical? > > Many people dual install NTP Classic and NTPsec. Overwriting the > service file of the one with the service file of another causes > confusion. If the NTPsec project wants to

Re: Installing ntpd.service

2019-03-20 Thread Daniel Franke via devel
Everything about init scripts should be assumed distro-specific and 'make install' should not be attempting to touch them. Leave that up to distro packagers. On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 2:57 PM Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > > Yo Hal! > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 22:07:26 -0700 > Hal Murray via devel

Re: Installing ntpd.service

2019-03-20 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Hal! On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 22:07:26 -0700 Hal Murray via devel wrote: > If we are going to install it, can we bypass the install if the > currently installed file is identical to the to-be-installed > version? More interesting to me, what do you do if it is NOT identical? Many people dual ins

Re: Installing ntpd.service

2019-03-20 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Richard! On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:54:50 -0500 Richard Laager via devel wrote: > On 3/20/19 12:07 AM, Hal Murray via devel wrote: > > Is that the right thing to do? Most of our stuff gets installed in > > /usr/local/ and similar where it doesn't overwrite any system > > files. ntpd.service is

Re: Installing ntpd.service

2019-03-19 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 3/20/19 12:07 AM, Hal Murray via devel wrote: > Is that the right thing to do? Most of our stuff gets installed in > /usr/local/ and similar where it doesn't overwrite any system files. > ntpd.service is the only exception I know of. I think it's right to install the service. If someone is

Installing ntpd.service

2019-03-19 Thread Hal Murray via devel
Is that the right thing to do? Most of our stuff gets installed in /usr/local/ and similar where it doesn't overwrite any system files. ntpd.service is the only exception I know of. --- If we are going to install it, can we bypass the install if the currently installed file is identica