Hi Roger. > > sysv-rc and file-rc are not completely interchangeable. sysv-rc > tries to restore the old sequence numbers in /etc/rc*.d on removal, > which is fine. But if I reinstall sysv-rc and then try to install > file-rc again, it fails on purge because it can't restore the links > the second time around. > > Since file-rc just deletes the links (and when file-rc is using > insserv, it won't need any information from them), is there any > need to retain this behaviour? Especially since it's partially > broken; not sure what's at fault there. Does anything else make > use of the status information in /var/lib/update-rc.d?
IMO, the reversal process has always been very fragile and should no longer be retained now that sysvinit unconditionally migrates to dependency based boot order. Thanks, Kel _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
