Bug 569933 - using lsb utilities for init scripts has unfortunate sideeffects
Summary: using lsb utilities for init scripts has unfortunate sideeffects
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: tor
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Enrico Scholz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-03-02 18:12 UTC by Matthew Miller
Modified: 2010-03-02 20:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-03-02 20:22:07 UTC
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Description Matthew Miller 2010-03-02 18:12:29 UTC 
Using LSB utilities for the service init script seems admirable. Unfortunately, as noted recently on the Fedora devel list, redhat-lsb pulls in an unfortunate string of dependencies, including (but not limited to) many audio and video libraries, servers, and even applications.

As the comment in the spec about bug #522053 notes, the LSB stuff in fedora isn't apparently even working right anyway.

Since tor doesn't actually require any of that stuff, it would be much better to modify the init script to simply use the Fedora "SysVInit" standards directly.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SysVInitScript
Comment 1 Enrico Scholz 2010-03-02 20:17:58 UTC 
is this really a problem in rawhide?  #472633#c10 implies that lsb-core does not pull in these deps anymore.
Comment 2 Matthew Miller 2010-03-02 20:22:07 UTC 
You're right; sorry about that.
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