On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 10:07:52 +0100 Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 09:34:12PM -0600, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > >zg-policy-rc.d currently has a fallback mechanism for finding the > >proper policy-rc.d file: > > > >* If `POLICYRCD` is already set, use the script the variable points > >to. > >* Otherwise, source `/etc/zg-policy-rc.d.conf`, and if `POLICYRCD` is > > now set, use the script the variable points to. > >* If `POLICYRCD` still isn't set, try to use > > `/usr/local/sbin/policy-rc.d`. > >* And if that fails, then try to use `/etc/policy-rc.d`. > > This looks like this needs a major internal rework. I had to read my > own code to understand its shortcomings as I assumed it was way more > sophisticated. Alas, it isn't. > > >This is good, but it means for an application or package that needs > >to introduce controls for service restarts for whatever reason, > >there's no way for it to insert it's own `policy-rc.d` > >implementation that `zg-policy-rc.d` will pick up, without having to > >override either `/usr/local/sbin/policy-rc.d` or > >`/etc/zg-policy-rc.d.conf`, both of which are non-ideal. > > I am not sure whether I intended this package to be used by another > package. And I am not sure whether policy-rc.d will work reliably on > a systemd system. I wrote that one 20 years ago and the code hasn't > been touched ever since. My use case for it is just controlling what services do and don't restart during apt upgrades, which does still work with systemd. > >Would this be a feature that an interested user could contribute? > >A Debian derivative I work with (Kicksecure) has a use case that > >would benefit from this, and I can probably send a patch to > >implement it. > > Would you want to take over or co-maintain the package? I can put the > package on salsa and you can file a merge request. I just can't > guarantee that the code will work under all circumstances. Sure, that would be great. Thanks for the offer! -- Aaron > Greetings > Marc >
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