On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 03:27:10AM -0400, Steven Barker wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:59:17PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 02:50:14AM -0400, Steven Barker wrote: > > > > I think that there should be a way to install a debian server packages > > > without having the installation scripts start the server. This need not > > > be > > > default, but it should be possible. > > > But that doesn't change the default. If you do something like this, > > you should add an option "apt-get --run install foo" > > Yes, that would make sense. Both --run and --no-run could be avalable as > options with the default behavior determined by apt/dpkg configuration. As > for what the default for apt/dpkg's config, that's for us to flame each > other over... ;-) >
Yes, make the default configurable if you have your debconf setting to "medium" or "low" and default to "Don't start" otherwise. I really don't want to have to type something more every time just to keep the daemons from starting... If you have -run and --no-run what happens when you don't specify either? > > Personally, I think there should either be a /etc/do-not-start/<package> > > dir that > > packages' init scripts check for non-existance before starting, or a > > commented entry in the config file that the init script checks for > > non-existance before starting... > > Well, now we're getting into heavy policy stuff.... I think it would be hard > enough to get all the daemon postinst scripts to work in run and no-run mode. > Actually, if we could get them all to source an sh script that contains that logic, all changes to policy would be self-contained. Mike
