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| author | Victor Lowther <victor.lowther@gmail.com> | 2008-04-10 22:02:15 -0500 |
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| committer | Victor Lowther <victor.lowther@gmail.com> | 2008-04-10 22:02:15 -0500 |
| commit | 69456c003c8a03e809f88f159aeaa05d35134b71 (patch) | |
| tree | f2accd19af78fb12f7c3fc968fd05b7487a51916 | |
| parent | 93af881ac18718c8eae7f575c3f30396791b0e75 (diff) | |
Added a README file for the distributions.
It describes a better method for packaging hooks needed for suspend/resume --
namely, put the hooks in the package tht requires them rather than making them
a part of the pm-utils package.
| -rw-r--r-- | README.distributions | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README.distributions b/README.distributions new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38c1b07 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.distributions @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Note for distro maintainers: + +When writing sleep hooks, please consider adding any needed hooks to the package +that requires the hooks, rather than pm-utils. + +An example would be if you distro wants anacrom to run on resume -- the optimal +fix would be to have the anacron package install a hook in +/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d that wakes anacron up on resume. + +This will also help package maintenance by allowing package maintainers to +keep track of what the best way to handle any suspend/resume functionality their +package requires insteas of leaving it up to the pm-utils maintainers to guess +at what functionality is needed.
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