On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:56:45PM -0700, Erik Hollensbe wrote: > I was wondering how possible it would be to considering adding to the policy that a single runlevel's symlinks be left out of updating from packages. > > After running an update of 200+ packages or so, all the rc?.d directories are re-polluted with symlinks i've destroyed. This is a big problem on my workstation, where I may only want mysqld up for a few hours while I check something, for example. if you leave at least one symlink in at least one runlevel, even if its a K link in runlevel 0 or 6 update-rc.d will refuse to add any new links. policy requires the use of update-rc.d so packages can't add any links so long as you leave at least one. if you find a package that does otherwise thats a bug. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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