[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#254999: Bug#254999: slapd: postinst conflicts with daemontools (should also conflict with runit)

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:17:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Roberto C Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com> writes:
> 
> > What is the advantage of this over something like "START=yes" or
> > "START=no" in the /etc/default/foobar file?
> 
> I tried to cover that in my message but probably didn't elaborate
> sufficiently.  Modifying a setting in the default file requires editing
> the default file, preserving other settings, and so forth.  In other
> words, it requires at least a one-line sed command and some thought and is
> more complex than a simple touch command.
> 
> We want something simple that can easily be handled by configuration
> management systems like Puppet and which doesn't require cutting and
> pasting a command or installing a local script for a junior administrator
> to do.  Saying "touch /etc/noldap" is easy to explain and easy to get
> monitoring software to do.
> 
Sounds reasonable.  I guess since I admin only a relatively small number
of machines, I don't tend to think of scalability as one of the first
things.

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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