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

[Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com>]

On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:

> However, I'm wondering whether a more elegant and simple solution
> might just be for Bruce to run the cross-installation which a PATH
> environment variable that ensures that the version of
> start-stop-daemon it finds is a link to `true'.

This is the best solution I've seen proposed yet, if we can assume
that Bruce's requirement to build base disks is a very special case.
If building of base disks is to be a generally-supported debian system
activity, however, a less hackish solution is needed (IMHO).