Bug#291148: [PROPOSAL] Add a 'status' option in init.d scripts

2005-01-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Priority: wishlist Tags: patch [ Note: I understand that this status suggestion is covered (without a valid example in #208010) but I believe that LSB compliance also forces some other things (like exit codes) which is still under discussion. That's why I'm

Re: in the basement

2005-01-18 Thread Darius Griffith
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Bug#291026: 9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking

2005-01-18 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:48:57AM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > sequence of commands which illustrate that "command -v foo" prints > the name of the first executable file "foo" it finds on the PATH, > failing which it prints the first non-executable file "foo" it finds > on the PATH. What sense doe

Bug#291026: 9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Severity: minor Section 9.3.3.2 gives this as an example of how to check for the availability of invoke-rc.d: >if command -v invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then 1. It would be helpful to mention that "command -v" is not POSIX and that therefore, to be

Bug#218530: Conditional command execution

2005-01-18 Thread Thomas Hood
(cc:ed to #218530) Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote to #289732: > The attached patches make your maintainer scripts behave just like a > package using debhelper would The patch makes use of "which". The problem with "which" is supposed to be that it is in /usr/bin/ and (as Ian Jackson wrote in #21