On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 07:13:15PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Marc Brockschmidt] > > What about a simple solution: Ask dpkg if sysvrc is installed. If > > not: Do the update-rc.d remove/start dance as currently > > implemented. If it used, check the current state of /etc/rc?.d/ and > > insert the new links accordingly to that. Would you be willing to > > implement this? It wouldn't worsen the situation, would improve it > > for a large majority of users and doesn't require APIs that are not > > available (yet).
> Note that sysv-rc is installed also when dependency based boot > sequencing (insserv) is enabled, and when it is enabled, the sequence > numbers are not fixed. So it is not enough to check if sysv-rc is > installed. Why do sequence numbers matter for *dependency*-based boot sequences? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
