On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 17:15 +1000, Michael Newton wrote:
> >
> > mail, i see ivan asked a similar qn. We should probably pursue this
> > but it
> > means a change in linuxmeister/build/init_buildsystem -- which is
> > actually part of SuSE's build stuff. There is no current facility for
> > passing in --noscripts specifically, nor extra args in general.
>
> You may be able to override the definition of rpm itself (is it called
> via a macro?) - to be RPM="rpm --noscripts" ... hard to say without
> seeing the scripts though.
no, no macro. I suppose its possible theres an alias being set-up at some
intermediate level, but im not going looking for that.. hopefully whoever
gets to look at the PV i raised will know
> > 2 possible stopgaps:
> > * restore the fallback to killall in oss, but not mangrove
>
> If that route were taken, theres no need for pmcd.pid anymore, it should
> all just be backed out. Not sure I'd favor that though, its painful to
> maintain a separate patch, and effectively reduces testing coverage from
> both sides of the mangrove/oss fence.
i agree
> > * have pmcd log creation of the pidfile. Only call killall if there is
> > a log file and it does *not* show creation of the pid file.
>
> That'd probably work, I guess. Just looking at that other patch you
> sent out now, which looks like a third option... (doesn't seem to do
> either of the above things afaict).
no.. i started out to do the above, but it evolved:)
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