Re: Bug#292299: ITP: policyrcd -- policy-compliant interface from invoke-rc.d to local config files
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:37:05AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:12:36 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> > <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
> > >On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, David Pashley wrote:
> > >> > The better fix IS to add an extra line to both incarnations of invoke-rc.d
> > >> > (sysv-rc's and file-rc's) to look under /usr/local/sbin first.
> > >
> > >Make that "later". I just noticed one has to run the system's
> > >/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d in preference to all else.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because if any package that is NOT a policy-rc.d package is providing a
> policy-rc.d in /usr/sbin, it has a damn good reason to do so, and it should
> take precendence. Examples of damn good reasons are alternative initscript
> managers such as runit.
Packages providing /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d are required to use the
alternatives system anyway.
Greetings
Marc
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