Christoph Anton Mitterer writes:
> I recently had a case which made me looking into this and Carsten Hey
> pointed me to that specific bug report here.
> Has there been any progress on this?
> I mean we already use LSB init script headers for dependency based
> booting...
> Many scripts alread
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes:
> 1) Right now, init-scripts, as well as cron-scripts are configuration
> files, right?
Yes. Nearly everything in /etc is a configuration file.
> I (personally) rarely seen that one really needs to modify an
> initscript.
I frequently need to modify init scrip
Hey Russ and others :)
I've thought about that issue a little bit again,... and have to further
points which might be worth discussion:
1) Right now, init-scripts, as well as cron-scripts are configuration
files, right?
I guess that made a lot of sense, when initscripts where a) much easier,
b
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:51:40 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Please see the bug log for this bug. It was the first thing that
everyone
> objected to.
I read that... and seen no real technical arguments,... just "it would
break things"... and the "argument" that many packages would need to
support th
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes:
> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I think LSB exit codes are by far the most controversial part of the LSB
>> proposal, are of dubious utility,
> What are the arguments against them?
Please see the bug log for this bug. It was the firs
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think LSB exit codes are by far the most controversial part of the LSB
> proposal, are of dubious utility,
What are the arguments against them?
> and would mean declaring most of Debian
> init scripts currently buggy.
That makes ever intr
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes:
> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> This is a design principle and design goal for Debian that goes beyond
>> just init scripts. Having a package removed but not purged should not
>> cause errors, send the administrator mail from cron jobs
Hey Russ...
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:14 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> It's normal in Debian for init scripts to be left behind after packages
> are removed, since Debian's package management system retains
> configuration files by default (which includes init scripts). This is
> true across a wide
Christoph Anton Mitterer writes:
> btw: Perhaps someone can explain me, when the Policy requests:
>> These scripts should not fail obscurely when the configuration files
>> remain but the package has been removed, as configuration files remain
>> on the system after the package has been removed.
btw: Perhaps someone can explain me, when the Policy requests:
>These scripts should not fail obscurely when the configuration files
>remain but the package has been removed, as configuration files remain
>on the system after the package has been removed.
I mean are there any special technical rea
Hi folks.
I recently had a case which made me looking into this and Carsten Hey
pointed me to that specific bug report here.
Has there been any progress on this?
I mean we already use LSB init script headers for dependency based
booting...
Many scripts already have the status action (and then
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