On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 15:02 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Bryan J Smith <[email protected]> said:
> > I can understand a package providing an Upstart event configuration.
> > But requiring it and not being able to support a legacy init is
> > troubling.
> 
> I think the requirement is there because vpnc includes an upstart event
> script.  It puts a file in /etc/event.d, and if upstart isn't installed,
> you get an unowned directory (with possibly incorrect permissions).  I
> think Fedora has a rule against unowned directories, so you are supposed
> to require the provider of the directory before you go putting files in
> it.

Chris,

That sounds new. I believe the vpnc-0.4.0-2-el5 in epel replaced by
vpnc-0.5.3-6.el5 had no upstart dependency. Does that mean the event
script is a packaging option?

--Doc

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