On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Antonio Terceiro <terce...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 10:47:28PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I'm packaging web server for ruby called unicorn. The package installs >> sysv init script, I want to make it installed but not activated >> because unicorn itself is useless, user should configure it and >> activate it with "update-rc.d unicorn enable". Or it may installed as >> dependency for rainbows, so it's clear that it should not run. >> >> So I need something like "dh_systemd_enable --no-enable", existing >> options for dh_installinit like "--no-start" or >> "--update-rcd-params=..." does not work such way, so we need to >> introduce workarounds in postinstall script. >> >> Any suggestions? > > for sysvinit you need to code that manually in the initscript. several > packages have their initscripts source /etc/default/$package, and check > for some variable that says whether the service should start on boot or > not.
I believe that practice is now frowned upon since update-rc.d has a disable verb. -m
