I did a archive wide summary of all the provides strings in init.d scripts, and collected the list of non-unique provides in use today:
2 block gnbd-client (#541980) gnbd-server (#541980) 2 console-screen console-screen.kbd.sh console-screen.sh 2 daemon clvm mailscanner 2 device gnbd-client (#541980) gnbd-server (#541980) 2 dicod dicod dictd 2 filesystem gfs-tools (#541980) gfs2-tools (#541980) 2 gearmand gearman-job-server gearman-server 2 lpd lpd lprng 2 lvm clvm lvm2 2 mail-transport-agent postfix xmail 2 network gnbd-client (#541980) gnbd-server (#541980) 2 networking netscript networking 2 postgresql postgresql-8.3 (#474515) postgresql-8.4 (#474515) 2 radiusd freeradius (#541882) radiusd 2 root-file-server root-system-rootd root-system-xrootd 2 slpd portsentry slpd 2 squid squid squid3 2 sshd lsh-server ssh 2 syslog inetutils-syslogd syslog-ng 2 xfs xfs xfstt 3 manager cman iscsitarget prelude-manager rgmanager 4 cluster clvm cman (#541980) iscsitarget rgmanager (#541980) 4 firebird-server firebird2.0-classic firebird2.0-super firebird2.1-classic firebird2.1-super 4 global gfs-tools (#541980) gfs2-tools (#541980) gnbd-client (#541980) gnbd-server (#541980) 4 pure-ftpd pure-ftpd pure-ftpd-ldap pure-ftpd-mysql pure-ftpd-postgresql 4 skeleton dnsmasq dspam (#541982) lldpd skeleton snmptt When two packages have two different init.d scripts providing the same service, it is impossible to install both at the same time, and the package installed first need to be purged before it is possible to install the other. Most of these are bugs, but I suspect some of them should be handle by defining new virtual provides in /etc/insserv.conf.d/. The point is to provide a way for several scripts to provide the same service while still having unique provides strings to avoid the problems with duplicate provides. My proposal is to introduce at least these: $mail-transport-agent - for the MTAs like exim, postfix, etc $console-setup - fonts and keyboard is set up in the console $postgresql - operantional postgresql server $radius - operational radius server $xfs - operational font server $squid - operational squid server $lvm - LVM subsystem activated I am not sure if - can be used in virtual facility names, but if not, we will just have to shorten some names. Any comments? 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
