On 05/04/2016 10:52 AM, Sam Jorna wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:00:05AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, 4 May 2016, Austin English wrote:
>>
>>>> Your list of affected packages obtained with "git grep" in the
>>>> Portage tree will not be complete, since the command won't catch
>>>> any init scripts installed from elsewhere. You should look for the
>>>> set of installed files instead.
>>
>>> How is that relevant here at all? I'm cleaning up portage installed
>>> init scripts, [...]
>>
>> You are cleaning up only those init scripts that are installed from
>> FILESDIR, but you will miss the ones that are installed from a file
>> in SRC_URI.
>
> Perhaps an alternate way to do it would be to have a QA check look at
> any files installed to ${D}etc/init.d/ and throw a warning if their
> shebang is "#!/sbin/runscript"
> A repoman check is a much saner approach, I'm not convinced there is sufficient need for this change to begin with, in particular to start touching a wide range of packages. Breaking backwards compatibility in any way should have a darn good reason, and I haven't seen one yet -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP certificate reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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