Currently, virtual facilities are defined either in /etc/insserv.conf or in /etc/insserv.conf.d/, and in Debian we expect packages providing virtual facilities like $named to add a file in /etc/insserv.conf.d/.
Such package would have a init.d script header like this: ## BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: pdns # ... ## END INIT INFO and a insserv.conf.d entry like this: $named pdns Instead, what about teaching insserv to understand notation like this, and skip the insserv specific file in /etc/: ## BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: pdns $named # ... ## END INIT INFO For this to work, insserv will have to accept and handle several scripts providing the same virtual facility, allowing setup like this: ## BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: pdns $named # ... ## END INIT INFO ## BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: bind $named # ... ## END INIT INFO ## BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: dnsmasq $named # ... ## END INIT INFO Werner, any opinion on this? I suspect the LSB should be updated to document that this is an allowed setup, if we go this way. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen
