Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-08 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 06:05:32PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: logs as a time series and not one big pile of jumbled messages: [1.017969] nv_probe: set workaround bit for reversed mac addr [1.022092] SCSI subsystem initialized [

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread G.W. Haywood
Package: initscripts Severity: normal The man page for rcS is dated 16 January 2006. The parallel boot system added at least one option which is not mentioned in the rcS man page, 'CONCURRENCY'. This option is mentioned in for example

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:02:57PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: Package: initscripts Severity: normal The man page for rcS is dated 16 January 2006. The parallel boot system added at least one option which is not mentioned in the rcS man page, 'CONCURRENCY'. This option is mentioned in for

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: Nowadays, parallel startup using startpar is the default. Disabling this is not something which is useful ... Not correct. The option could well be removed entirely in future releases.

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:02:57PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: ... The parallel boot system added at least one option which is not mentioned in the rcS man page, 'CONCURRENCY'. ... This is intentionally undocumented. In previous stable

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: Nowadays, parallel startup using startpar is the default. Disabling this is not something which is useful ... Not correct. The

Bug#692559: general: Information missing from man page for rcS

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 06:05:32PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:25:51PM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: Nowadays, parallel startup using startpar is the default. Disabling this is not