[2018-12-16 12:48] Jesse Smith <jsm...@resonatingmedia.com> > I think moving these files in insserv itself would be fairly straight > forward. I haven't looked into it in any detail yet, but I'm going to > guess this could be done by changing a few path names in the code. > > However, there is a bit of a domino effect because startpar is hardwired > to look for the .depend.* files in /etc/init.d/ which means startpar > needs to be updated too. > > Changing both programs should be fairly trivial, but since at least > these two programs need to change to use the new path, it means we need > to carefully consider the migration so we don't prevent a system from > booting if insserv gets updated before startpar on existing systems. > > What we could probably do, in the short term, is set startpar to look in > /lib/insserv/depend.* first and, if that fails, fall back to the old way > of using /etc/init.d/.depend.* Then it won't matter if the user is > running the current version of insserv or the future/fixed version. > > Thoughts on this approach?
Sounds reasonable. Probably even add a warning, if .depend.* files are found under /etc.
