[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Bug#554036: Please remove confusing config files in /etc/gridengine

[Michael Hanke]

Package: gridengine
Version: 6.2-4
Severity: normal

Hi,

the gridengine-common package install two config files in
/etc/gridengine/, namely 'configuration' and 'bootstrap'. Having these
files in /etc it suggests that they could be config files, but they
don't actually seem to be that.

First, 'configuration' says "DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE MANUALLY!", but it should
read "WHATEVER YOU DO TO THIS FILE HAS NO EFFECT!". SGE/qconf doesn't read it
and the Debian packaging also doesn't do that, but 'init_script'
refers to /usr/share/gridengine/default-configuration during the initial package
configuration. Afterwards it is never read again.

I don't see any reason to keep those files, especially since they
indicate a configuration possibility that does not exist.

The only potentially existing case for which it would make sense to keep
those files would be: If the package is removed (but not purged) and
reinstalled later on the package cuold use the same, potentially
tweaked, bootstrap default again. However, first this is probably very
rare and second
/usr/share/gridengine/{default-bootstrap,default-configuration} should
become symlinks to /etc/gridengine. It looks like this was intended to
be like this at some point (looking into debian/file_structure in the
source package).


Thanks,

Michael


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