On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:39:21PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 01-Apr-2002 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >> This question (where do I put local init.d scripts) comes up enough that > >> a policy ought IMVAO be set for it. > > > > Hmm... well, ALL we need in policy is to define that no Debian packages > > should ever use an initscript ID prefixed by local. > > > > Is there reason for more? policy is not a user's guide, after all. > > > > the key is to both ensure this behaviour works in Debian (perhaps via policy) > and have this documented clearly and conspicuously in as many places as > possible. The question pops up every 3 weeks or so on the debian-user list.
Actually, this question is answered by FAQ which is hard to find. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-customizing.html#s-custombootscripts Problem with FAQ is it is old. (Potato release days contents) Policy to prefixed scripts is nice. FAQ needs to be updated if so. -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D
