Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> writes: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> policy-rc.d is supposed to be configured (and thus edited) by the >> local admin. It should thus not live in /usr/sbin. > > It is supposed to be supplied under the Debian alternatives subsystem or > something equivalent, which will install a symlink there. In fact, it will > install a symlink to /etc/alternatives/policy-rc.d, which will be another > symlink there to the active "alternative".
But nobody ever does that. > The /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d symlink would be created and managed by the > packages providing policy-rc.d, through /usr/sbin/update-alternatives. The > local admin can do the same if he wants. Or he can just add a real file in > /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d, and update-alternatives should leave it alone. > > Nobody ever found a reason to package a general-use policy-rc.d, although > the feature is directly used by some tools that create private chroots, such > as pbuilder. That's the most common use (also by d-i as far as I remember). And sometimes people write their own policy-rc.d. In all cases, it's a configuration choice and not shipped by a package, and so belongs below /etc. >> Please support using a policy-rc.d located under /etc (and leave >> /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d as a legacy location). > > AFAIK, there is no strong technical reason to change the policy-rc.d ABI at > this time, so I will downgrade this to wishlist and tag it wontfix. Well, it doesn't break any old use. It's an ABI-compatible change ;) Ansgar _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
