On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:10:37AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> writes: > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:44:16 -0800, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> > > wrote: > >>I hope that at least the cupsys maintainer will close this bug without > >>mangling the package in this fashion; there's no reason to have the cupsys > >>server package installed if you're not going to use it as a server. > > > > I disagree. I have a number of server packages installed on my > > personal laptop for the sake of having the docs with me. I am, > > however, fine with using update-rc.d or $EDITOR /etc/runlevel.conf[1] > > to accomplish this. > > > > My beef is that I want to be able to prevent a newly installed > > package's postinst from starting the service (for example, because I > > know that the service needs configuration before it can be started for > > the first time, or because I know that this service is probably never > > going to run on this installation). > > > > Greetings > > Marc > > [1] Thanks, Roland, for file-rc, which is really great > Chroots also nearly never want to start services and it would be nice > fi there were a consistent way to stop daemons from getting started > (stoped on upgrade) on install there. echo -e '#!/bin/sh\n\nexit 101' > /chroot/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d \ && chmod a+x /chroot/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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