On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Mike Bird <mgb-deb...@yosemite.net> wrote: > On Thu December 30 2010 12:13:03 Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Mike Bird <mgb-deb...@yosemite.net> wrote: >>> >>> Your solution is to edit /etc/init.d/apache2. Your solution requires >>> manual intervention on every apache2 upgrade. >> >> Apparently not: >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/12/msg00550.html > > I see. So for packages which "respect editing /etc/init.d/" > files, manual intervention is required every time the > packager changes the virgin "/etc/init.d/" file, but not > necessarily on every upgrade. > > Thank you, Tom. > > Nevertheless, this is still more manual intervention than > if the override is placed in /etc/insserv/overrides, or some > but not all of the many other places where dependencies can > be declared. > > Some of the open questions are which of those many places are > reserved for Debian packagers and which are reserved for > sysadmins; and which if any will be automatically converted > to systemd or launchd or upstart when insserv is thrown out.
You're welcome. IIUC, you'll be prompted at every upgrade of "/etc/init.d/apache2" to choose between your local copy or the maintainer's or to view a diff (or a fourth option that I can't remember at the moment; shell prompt?). As a sysadmin, I'd choose to use "/etc/insserv/overrides" or "/etc/insserv.conf.d" rather than "/etc/init.d" or "/etc/insserv.conf" respectively if at all possible. As an aside, you refer to the pre-insserv setup as "Snn/Knn startup mechanism" but insserv doesn't deviate from that style. insserv creates the Snn/Knn symlinks dynamically in an order determined by a set of dependencies. pre-insserv the symlinks' order was set statically by the maintainers. No comment on the post-insserv setup except to say that I hope that it isn't launchd because I'd rather not have to deal with its xml daemon and agent definitions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=cdirivoar2akomcxi60qvbgjgsyoaejanx...@mail.gmail.com