No objections from my part, as I do not have all the required details in my head any more, just want to clear up something that look like misunderstandings.
[Martin Pitt] > Some of its dependency should also move, e. g. startpar is only > needed for initscripts [4]. Ideally insserv could be moved to > initscripts as well, but I haven't done research yet whether that > would still be "necessary infrastructure to keep SysV init scripts > working" (I have a hunch that this is the case, as something needs to > create /etc/rc?.d/ links for packages that only have SysV init > scripts, under any init system). 'startpar' is not really needed for scripts in the initscripts package. 'startpar' is an implementation detail behind the code in /etc/init.d/rc and /etc/init.d/rcS which belong to the sysv-rc package. The implementation detail is to run the init.d scripts in parallell using the dependency information stored in /etc/init.d/.depend.* (generated by insserv). And 'insserv' is not really needed for the initscripts scripts either. It is the internal implementation for the sysv-rc way of starting init.d scripts called by /usr/sbin/update-rc.d from the init-system-helpers package. So update-rc.d require insserv when /etc/init.d/rc from sysv-rc is used, and /etc/init.d/rc require startpar to run scripts in parallell. Do your proposal still make sense when those details are the way they are? I'm not sure using the initscripts package as a resting place for things that is no longer needed with systemd is a good idea. After all, the initscripts scripts work just fine with file-rc and no parallel boot, and in that use case startpar isn't used. The key platforms in Debian using sysvinit/initscripts/sysv-rc these days are Hurd and kFreeBSD. Perhaps someone from those platforms should test the new proposal to ensure it do not break their installation and boot? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
