Hi. A regular problem here in Debian, is the confusion caused by depending on the virtual facility $all. Most people expect normal dependencies to be applied together with $all, and not the current behaviour. When three scripts have these headers:
Provides: a Provides: b Required-Start: $all Provides: c Required-Start: b The expected dependency three and ordering look like this: a <- b <- c The current insserv implementation order them like this: a c b The dependency graph look something like this: a <- (b) <- c <- $all <- b (b) indicate where script b would have been located (and is assumed to be located when dependency ordering is done) if it did not depend on $all. The reason is that $all override all dependency tracking and place the scripts depending on it at a sequence point behind every script without a dependency on $all. Dr. Werner, is there any chance you would find time to modify insserv to handle $all more intuitively. I believe the scripts need to be split in two separate sets, the ones without direct or indirect dependencies on $all, and the ones that have direct or indirect dependencies on $all. Then the first set is ordered according to their dependencies, and $all is made to depend on all of these, and finally the second set is ordered according to their dependencies without $all depending on them. See <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/491391> for an example of the problems triggered by the strange $all behaviour. What is your view on this? I guess $all should also be added to the LSB list of virtual facilities with an improved definition. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
