Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-11-01 Thread Julian Gilbey
Just going through some really old mails, when I stumbled upon this thread: On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > It says this: > > The system administrator will have the opportunity to customize runlevels > by either running update-rc.d, by simply adding, moving, or

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > # There are three sub-cases: > if test "${2+set}" != set; then > # We're being installed by an ancient dpkg which doesn't remember > # which version was most recently configured, or even whether > # there is a most recently configured v

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes: >> So, why isn't it policy for packages to update-rc.d their init scripts only >> on initial install? Policy just tells them to do in the postinst, period >> -- which means unconditionally by implication. Anthony> I'm not sure how that interacts with rem

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:59:42AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > > > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > > > was just installed. > > So you should leave the K scripts about, rath

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 03:14:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > > was just i

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-02 Thread Seth R Arnold
* Anthony Towns [000501 22:14]: > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > > was just installed. > > So you should l

Re: I have a beef with policy 3.3.3

2000-05-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 01:59:15PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > update-rc.d has no way of knowing if the symlinks in the rc directories > aren't there because the local admin removed them, or because the package > was just installed. So you should leave the K scripts about, rather than complet