Package: init-system-helpers Version: 1.46 Severity: normal Tags: patch X-Debbugs-CC: Chris Lamb <[email protected]>, Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Dear Maintainer, As discussed on IRC we seem to agree that an init-less chroot which does not have a policy-rc.d blocking service actions isn't a sane configuration. This patch auto-detects the situation and skips running the invoke-rc.d action (aka policy-rc.d code 101), unless --force was given. In both situations a warning message is (also) printed. Please see attached patch. For further background see #838966 and #838997 (With this patch applied I hope we can get the change in #838997 reverted from lintian as I plainly think the check suggests a bad idea.) Regards, Andreas Henriksson
>From aee6f70eb7031d8f7baaca23b89e5639b02773d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Henriksson <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 10:43:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Do policy-rc.d automatically in init-less chroots See #838966 and #838997 for background. A debootstrap with --variant=minbase will have lsb-base installed, so the person running into this issue must have: - not added a policy-rc.d in his init-less chroot - removed lsb-base manually (and what else?) This patch auto-detects the situation with init-less chroot that's missing a policy-rc.d and deals with it automatically (plus gives a warning message). --- script/invoke-rc.d | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/script/invoke-rc.d b/script/invoke-rc.d index ed9028d..6e0a05c 100755 --- a/script/invoke-rc.d +++ b/script/invoke-rc.d @@ -176,6 +176,15 @@ if test "x${POLICYHELPER}" != x && test -x "${POLICYHELPER}" ; then ;; esac else + if test ! -e "/sbin/init" ; then + if test x${FORCE} != x ; then + printerror "WARNING: No init system and policy-rc.d missing, but force specified so proceeding." + else + printerror "WARNING: No init system and policy-rc.d missing! Defaulting to block." + RC=101 + fi + fi + if test x${RC} = x ; then RC=104 fi -- 2.10.2
