Could you please explain why that is not the way to go?

What alternatives do you recommend?

Best regards,
Sebastian.



2014-07-16 8:24 GMT+01:00 Alex Owen <[log in to unmask]>:

> On 9 Jul 2014, at 18:58, Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > On 07/07/2014 10:07 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> >> For SL6 we include the following 'tweak' rpms:
> >>
> >> SL_desktop_tweaks
> >> SL_enable_serialconsole-1152
> >> SL_enable_serialconsole-192
> >> SL_enable_serialconsole-384
> >> SL_enable_serialconsole
> >> SL_enable_serialconsole-96
> >> SL_no_colorls
> >> SL_password_for_singleuser
> >>
> >>
> >> The 'SL_desktop_tweaks' added a terminal to the menu bar, in SL7 this is
> >> already done by upstream.
> >>
> >> The 'SL_password_for_singleuser' required the root password for single
> user
> >> mode, in SL7 this is already done by upstream.
> >>
> >> This leaves 'SL_enable_serialconsole' and 'SL_no_colorls'.
> >>
> >>
> >> With SL7 the terminal seems to be very good a detecting support for the
> ASCII
> >> controls which set the colors.  Is this still something the community
> wants?
> >>
> >>
> >> With SL7 the serial consoles are very easy to setup.  Simply add:
> >>
> >> GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND='serial --speed=9600 --unit=0'
> >> GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="$GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT serial"
> >> GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="$GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT serial"
> >> GRUB_TERMINAL="$GRUB_TERMINAL serial"
> >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="$GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX console=tty0
> console=/dev/ttyS0,9600"
> >>
> >> to /etc/sysconfig/grub
> >>
> >> Anaconda (the installer) does this for you automatically if the serial
> options
> >> are set with kickstart.
> >>
> >> What are the various feelings here?  Make these rpms, don't make them?
> >>
> >> Pat
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Personally, never heard of them, and generally configuration by rpm
> installation seems like not the right way to go.  But I'm a small user…
> >
>
> I concur that configuration by tweak packages is not a clean way to
> configure machines.
> For what it is worth Debian Policy prohibits one package from changing the
> configuration files of another package.
> The sound reasoning behind the Debain Policy would, in my opinion, also
> apply to Scientific Linux.
>
> Regards
> Alex Owen
>
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