On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Henrique Junior <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello, Volker
> I'm already a Fedora packager (not an experient one) and I'd love to put
> ntop in EPEL (it is in EPEL for EL5). The problem in maintain ntop in EPEL6
> is that Fedora now uses systemd to manage our services instead of sysv. It
> is a Fedora policy to keep only one spec file and that spec is not
> compatible with EL6 anymore. That is why I believe that RPMForge is the
> better option.
> I'm open to ideas to make this package as useful as possible.

RHEL 6 still uses primarily init scripts. Fedora 17 or later, however,
uses systemd, and the disparity is going to become more of a problem
for EPEL and Repoforge package maintainers. We're going to have to
publish two startup files, and install based on which OS is selected.

I'm facing similar work with Subversion and the svnserve init script.