Package: rcconf Version: 2.5 Severity: wishlist I have an idea to make rcconf much less trouble-prone: don't store any state at all, and instead just rely and change what you find on disk.
I.e., maybe the problems mentioned on the man page can be fixed by eliminating /var/lib/rcconf/services , and instead just using the state as found on disk: Just scanning each /etc/init.d/*'s # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5... # Default-Stop: 0 1 6... and comparing them to what is on disk: If all the mentioned start links are there in /etc/rc?.d/*, we list [*]. If only some of them are there, we list [B] (Broken, but the user can toggle this to [ ] or [*] to fix it (OK, maybe not possible via whiptail or whatever, but you get the idea.) If none of the start links are there, we list [ ]. If the user toggles to [ ], we remove all the start links. If the user toggles to [*], add all the start links as found in Default-Start. No need for Guide Files either. If the user uses --guide, then the "Description" lines are also read from /etc/init.d/*. Works even when they also use --expert. Anyway, there are usually oh, 100+ files on the users /etc/init.d/* so it is not too slow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
