pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop daemons

[bruce@Pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

Part of the process of building the base disks involves installing all of
the base packages on an "alternate root", that is using the "--root"
argument of "dpkg" to set its idea of the root to the directory in which
I'm building the base.

When I do this, I see a lot of messages about not being able to kill
network daemons, /proc not being mounted, etc. Also, daemons are
probably being started when it isn't appropriate. However, I do want
to execute the pre-inst and post-inst scripts because most of the work
they do is useful and necessary to build correct base disks.

I think we should agree on an environment variable that I can set to
tell the pre- and post-inst scripts not to start of kill daemons.
Would "DEBIAN_NO_DAEMONS=1;export DEBIAN_NO_DAEMONS"
be an appropriate thing to use?

	Thanks

	Bruce
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