On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:29:42PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > -- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > (on Friday, 31 January 2003, 06:01 PM +0000): > > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:32:36AM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: > > > Have you tried the update-rc.d executable? My understanding is that when > > > the various init scripts are added/deleted/moved with this, debconf > > > won't change them. > > > > Firstly, it's not debconf (that's *exclusively* the interface that pops > > up to ask you questions and the limited number of things that interact > > with it over its standardized protocol, not the Debian package > > configuration process in general - they are often confused). > > Oops. My bad. But from your wording, I'm not sure if you're saying it's > the package configuration process that causes changes to the SysV script > order/placement, or something else...?
It's the code in the maintainer scripts (preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm), yes. The postinst, for instance, is typically responsible for adding links to init.d scripts, and runs update-rc.d. > > Secondly, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0301/msg04972.html; I > > posted some comments on the non-magicalness of update-rc.d there. > > I'll take a look. But if you notice my original post, I also note that > in *my experience* changing the order in which scripts load/unload in > the individual runlevel directories has not caused problems -- whether > or not this is true everytime was up for someone else to point out -- > thank you for doing so! *grin* The only case that will cause a problem is if you use update-rc.d to remove the links entirely, which won't be preserved on upgrade. Changing the order of the links with update-rc.d is fine. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
