[Slackbuilds-users] keepalived

[V'yacheslav Stetskevych]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Nishant Limbachia <nishant at mnspace.net> wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 04:17 PM, Nilton Moura wrote:
>> I'm trying to make a SlackBuild for the keepalived project, but the
>> format of the source is like Fedora, copying init script to
>> /etc/init.d and one specific configuration file under /etc/sysconfig.
>> I think that I need to put this file under the /etc/keepalived that
>> exists, and about the init script, should I create a new one or
>> install the same under /etc/rc.d and change the call from
>> /etc/sysconfig to /etc/keepalived with sed for example in the
>> doinst.sh?
>
> You will probably want to modify the init file to the Slackware
> preferred way.  Look at the other rc files available in Slackware.  For
> the config file, you can check if the software supports starting via an
> alternate config file.  e.g. something like.
>
> keepalived --config /etc/keepalived
>
> You can then modify the rc file to call the program with that specific
> option.  You also have to see if init file has Fedora specific stuff, if
> yes, then you need to test if that would work on stock Slackware.

I would just base a new slackware rc.keepalived on the existing init
script, and bundle it with the slackbuild. The settings in
/etc/sysconfig can usually be integrated into the slackware rc script.

This should be cleaner, than sed'ding out parts of the existing one
(which might change with the next upstream update).

-- V'yacheslav.

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