-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed 2007-05-02 16:42:16 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> Each daemon package, in postinst, calls > /usr/sbin/update-initsystem > > Each init system provides a /usr/sbin/update-initsystem which can read > the common hint format and generate the specific scripts it likes. > > When switching from one init system to another, install the new > update-initsystem, find the packages owning the files in > /etc/init.d/*, and have them each do a new postinst. If the different init systems could be installed simultaneously (with /etc/alternatives deciding the dominant one) you wouldn't even need to do this. just look for the registered hint files (in /usr/share/initsystem, by analogy with /usr/share/menu?). > So: a new package will get the current initsystem, a switch of > initsystems takes some time but is not difficult, and nothing > needs to be regenerated at boot time. > > As a systems administrator, I like this. It's not any harder to > understand than update-rc.d I also quite like it, if i'm understanding it correctly. It parallels nicely with debian menu policy, which at this point is pretty well understood. --dkg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8+ <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFGOPshiXTlFKVLY2URAihMAKCmYy2QL2NxA8Bfvte+1wnEEyEsRgCgv7MS zV6KYJhJ8bUzdzaRFYolQmQ= =JFx5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
