On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:00:12PM +0200, Didier Raboud wrote: > Hi Stanislav, and thanks for your bugreport, > (CC'ing the sysvinit maintainers), > > Le jeudi, 17 mai 2012 00.19:38, vous avez écrit : > > Perhaps, /etc/default/rcS could be a better place for setting FANCYTTY > > variable, because this place is documented (man rcS) and also there is > > a variable VERBOSE that has a similar purpose and is defined in this > > file. The file /etc/default/rcS also exists by default on the newly > > installed Debian, and, thus, changing the way how the messages are > > displayed can be less confusing for users. > > > > Evidently, if you decide to use /etc/default/rcS for this setting, > > this file should *not* be simply sourced from /lib/lsb/init-functions. > > Instead, you may use something like > > > > FANCYTTY=$([ -e /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS && echo $FANCYTTY) > > After an initial perplexity, I think I now quite like this idea. From the rcS > manpage: "rcS - variables that affect the behavior of boot scripts", so it > would be a good fit for /etc/default/rcS. > > Given that /etc/default/rcS is managed by initscripts (from src:sysvinit), > I'm > hereby asking the sysvinit maintainers: what do you think?
One problem right now is that /etc/default/rcS is not a conffile, and is never upgraded after the initial install. Adding the option would only make it available for new installs. [Note: the version in testing/unstable was changed to use ucf, but it's likely this will be reverted in the next upload, restoring the historical never-updated behaviour.] Note that conincidentally, the next util-linux update (today, once I've finished testing) will remove the UTC setting from this file, which was the primary reason it couldn't be made a conffile. So it's possible it might become a conffile again in the future if people don't object to the idea. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org