[2019-01-11 15:50] Richard Braun <rbr...@sceen.net> > > part text/plain 1117 > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:37:16PM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > > Dear colleagues, I seek your advice. > > > > Samuel, as Debian GNU/Hurd user and > > Justin, as developer who wrote sysvinit-core.config, > > you may be the most knowledgable about issue. > > > > I am trying to understand, what is the purpose of following code in > > sysvinit-core.config: > > > > if [ "$(uname)" = GNU ]; then > > db_set sysvinit/hurd-fix-inittab "true" > > if echo '3e3693078d18d4696c83a76531433cd4 /etc/inittab' \ > > | md5sum --status --check -; then > > # The file is unmodified, update it silently. > > : > > elif [ $(fgrep -c -e '/libexec/getty' /etc/inittab) -gt 0 ] || \ > > [ $(grep -c '^c:' /etc/inittab) -eq 0 ]; then > > db_input low sysvinit/hurd-fix-inittab || true > > db_go > > fi > > fi > > > > What is magic md5 '3e3693078d18d4696c83a76531433cd4'? What is the state > > of transition it was intended for? > > That magic number is the md5 sum of the inittab file intended to be > updated. The script makes sure that the inittab content is the one > expected before updating it.
Probably, I was not clear enough. Of course, I understand "what" this code doing, I am asking "why" and whether this "why" is still up-to-date.
