On 05/05/2016 01:12 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 07:41:39PM +1000, Sam Jorna wrote:
>> On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:57:44AM +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>>> 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
>> I'm not arguing for or against it in general, just in terms of technical
>> implementation.
>>
>> That being said, a repoman check would only catch those distributed in
>> ${FILESDIR} as well. My thinking with the above was to also identify
>> those installed from distfiles to be handled accordingly.
> Actually, you won't need to worry about any qa checks in portage,
> because I am going to put a deprecation warning in OpenRC upstream which
> will be displayed when a service script invokes runscript instructing
> you to convert to openrc-run.
>
> OpenRC will keep runscript, with this warning, for a while.
>
>
So again, because I feel like either I'm too stupid to understand this,
or too smart to let such an obviously bad idea continue:What problem is being solved here?
