Bug#594917: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Kel Modderman > > ]] Roger Leigh > > > > > I'm not sure myself. Probably because it's potentially dangerous > > > since it would want to replace it with a symlink, and that might > > > result in dataloss. Do you have an example of the virtual > > > facility problem? > > > > Why would it w

Bug#594917: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-22 Thread Kel Modderman
> ]] Roger Leigh > > > I'm not sure myself. Probably because it's potentially dangerous > > since it would want to replace it with a symlink, and that might > > result in dataloss. Do you have an example of the virtual > > facility problem? > > Why would it want to replace it with a symlink?

Bug#594917: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-22 Thread Kel Modderman
> ]] Kel Modderman > > > > ]] Roger Leigh > > > > > > > I'm not sure myself. Probably because it's potentially dangerous > > > > since it would want to replace it with a symlink, and that might > > > > result in dataloss. Do you have an example of the virtual > > > > facility problem? > > >

Bug#594917: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Roger Leigh > I'm not sure myself. Probably because it's potentially dangerous > since it would want to replace it with a symlink, and that might > result in dataloss. Do you have an example of the virtual > facility problem? Why would it want to replace it with a symlink? AIUI, insserv ju

Bug#594917: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
reassign 594917 insserv retitle 594917 insserv: Issues with virtual facilities and non-symlinked initscripts thanks On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 09:41:32PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Roger Leigh > > > Could you provide examples please? If there are init scripts which > > it can't handle, t

Bug#594917: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Roger Leigh > Could you provide examples please? If there are init scripts which > it can't handle, that's a bug. Either in insserv or (more likely) > the scripts. It fails to handle the case where something provides a virtual facility, at least. It also seems to think that /etc/init.d/../

Bug#594917: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-19 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:52:23PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Roger Leigh > > > (I don't know if you saw my mail regarding having done this > > provisionally in git; I mentioned it on the pkg-sysvinit-devel > > list and in #545976. I was wanting to additionally ask you > > how safe it wo