On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Erich Schubert wrote: > > How so? > > Non-standard init script actions.
If they're thruly non-standard, then why would anyone call invoke-rc.d with them (*remember* that invoke-rc.d is for *PACKAGING* scripts *ONLY*. Any other uses of invoke-rc.d are *NOT* supported). If they are standard to a particular initscript system, the invoke-rc.d of that initscript system will know the action and do whatever it is supposed to do with it. And packages that call such an initscript action would have to know what to do if it failed anyway (because they were not installed in a system that is not using an initscript subsystem that supports that action). > And not enough information for dependency handling - do dependant > services need to be restarted, too? In many cases it's not needed, > IMHO. THAT kind of decision is made by the initscript subsystem itself and its tools (e.g. its own implementation of need/provides). invoke-rc.d is NOT TO BE USED FOR SUCH. Remember that a particular implementation of invoke-rc.d and update-rd.c is particular to a given initscript subsystem. If you change initscript subsystems, you *ARE* to do change invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d as well. > And if you want to have a "proper" dependency handling (I'm not sure > of a real world case where I need that, but some people on the list > were heavily complaining about needing that...) and want to do a > rollback (i.e. stop dependant services), you also need to roll-forward > again, starting them again. And you also need to be able to do that > when you are sent a "stop", and a "start" later (which is not that > uncommon for upgrades) > I guess current runit can do these rollbacks, with this "want: up" > notion it seems to have. I don't follow you. What has that to do with invoke-rc.d per si? If you can't support roll-forward, then don't. invoke-rc.d certainly does not mandate that at all. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
