Hello fellow initers. I have uploaded two new beta packages to the Download area [1] today. These new packages, insserv-1.20.0-beta2.tar.xz and startpar-0.63-beta2.tar.xz, make some minor adjustments to the previous beta releases which I'd like to get tested before the final versions come out in June.
These betas are also the same as the ones previously mentioned here about a week ago [2], with an important difference: the new location of Makefile-style dependency data has been reverted. When the initial beta packages were published they included a change to move dependency information out of /etc/init.d/ to another location, /var/lib/insserv/. A few issue reports had requested this and it had been discussed a bit downstream. However, once the beta was published, it got people talking about the location options again. As it turns out, Petter was quite right: /var/lib/insserv is a poor location as it may not be mounted at boot time. This could be worked around by altering update-rc.d, but it seems that is not likely to happen, at least not right away. A few people suggested putting in the information under /lib, but this seems to violate FHS more than keeping changing config files under /etc. Someone suggested another path under /etc, but this would cause insserv to incorrectly treat dependency information as initscripts. In short, the best way forward seemed to be to take a step backward and revert the changes. Keeping the dependency data under /etc/init.d/ has worked for over a decade, it's familiar and it shouldn't (seriously) violate FHS. In short, using /etc/init.d seems to be the lesser of evils. All other changes listed in the first beta are still in place. Assuming no new issues crop up, I plan to publish stable versions of sysvinit, startpar and insserv around the end of June. - Jesse 1. http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/sysvinit/ 2. http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/sysvinit-devel/2019-05/msg00002.html
