On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 09:44:11PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Roger Leigh] > > While the bug was originally filed as only wishlist, this does solve > > a rather more important issue: any change to the defaults would > > never take effect on upgrade; it would require a fresh install, > > because it's only set once on initial install. > > Note that this behaviour of not changing behaviour of the boot > settings on upgrades were by design, not by accident. Existing > settings were not intended to change after the system were installed.
Does this apply to all values, or just a subset? I'm wondering if this specifically applies only to UTC, this might be moved to e.g. /etc/default/hwclock which would perhaps permit rcS to become a conffile if the other values could be treated normally. > > Another alternative would be to make /etc/default/rcS a conffile. > > The only niggle is that this file is modified by the installer, > > which is not ideal. However, this would make the use of ucf > > redundant, if we can find a way to make this possible. > > Actually, I believe you are trying to solve the wrong problem with > both the ucf approach and your idea of turning /etc/default/rcS into a > conffile. > > If changes to the default setup should affect existing installations > after upgrades, drop /etc/default/rcS and use code like this instead > of only loading /etc/default/rcS: > > . /lib/init/default-rcS > if [ -e /etc/default/rcS ] ; then . /etc/default/rcS ; fi > > This one the defaults get from a file not considered system > configuration, and all (and only) local overrides are fetched from > /etc/default/rcS. We already do this in vars.sh AFAICT. Though we could move the hard-coded values out into /lib/init/default-rcS. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
