>On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Bart Smaalders wrote: >> The IPS (Image Packaging System) project is working on a >> generic solution to the "run this at first restart" after >> service startup. This should be a much mor erobust solution >> to your problem, and provides a known context for execution.
How does IPS solve the problem of things which MUST be run prior to the reboot? (Adding device drivers mostly)? >Ignore my rant - it's a minor frustration on the overall scale of life >- but please consider addressing these frustrations in the new >installer. But isn't the point of your rant that "adding run at boot" things will make some of the debugging harder? I certainly don't like "run at boot" as it also implies "must reboot"; but that can be addressed by also allowing for "immediate scripts", say "if $ROOT == / && script-immediate then run now". The crappiest bit of "run at boot" is GNOME post run; it takes to long and it just generates stuff which is basically the same after each install. Casper
