Here is a small status update on the dependency based init.d script ordering effort.
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > As you might be aware, there are several bugs in the Debian boot > sequence. The bugs affect some combinations of packages, and are some > times hard to solve. To solve them once and for all, I want us to > switch to a dependency based sequencing of the symlinks in > /etc/rc*.d/. I gave a talk about this at Debconf, see > <URL:https://penta.debconf.org/~joerg/events/21.en.html> for the > slides and more info. This still holds. > For this to work properly, all init.d scripts need to provide > dependency information. There is a standard for specifying such > dependency information in the LSB, and already 56% of the Debian > packages in unstable include the header with dependency information. > This message is for the rest of you. > > I've created > <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DependencyBasedBoot> to > track the progress of this work. See also > <URL:http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts> for clues on how to write > such header. Please have a look at the URL above and fix your packages. :) The amount of packages missing such headers have gone from 44% this summer to 38% at the moment. Most of the packages in a desktop install is already converted, but a few vital ones are still missing. I've used insserv in my sid chroot as a replacement for update-rc.d since this summer, and it seem to work fairly well. There are enough override files to get a correct boot sequence. There is a small bug in insserv when it comes to the shutdown sequence, and I have not been able to figure it out yet. This leads to a slightly wrong halt and reboot sequence, even if the init.d script headers are correct. I hope to find a solution to this issue soon. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
