On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:24:09PM +1000, Leni Mayo wrote: > I am new to Debian and have packaged some software which lets the > boot scripts (/etc/rc[12345].d) run in parallel. It also supports > visualisation of services, dependencies and timings. > > As this is the first release on debian, I'd be grateful if someone > with more packaging experience than myself could take a look at it, > especially since the installation process patches /etc/init.d/rc.
It would be a good idea to read the proposals for improving the initscript subsystem that were discussed at the recent Debian conference: http://people.debian.org/~hmh/ > One known bug is that the -ldb library is currently statically > linked into the daemon, and it ought to be dynamically > linked. I haven't yet figured how to bind the linker to a specific > version of db that's known to be widely deployed. Use whatever version you think is appropriate (say, db3) and let dependencies do the rest of the work for you. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
