Bug#4674: ppp postinst bugs
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From: Michael Alan Dorman[SMTP:mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu]
Sent: 02 October 1996 20:56
To: Guy Maor; 4674@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#4674: ppp postinst bugs
Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:
> No, keep it, but don't install the links in /etc/rc.*, and take out
> that silly run_pppd check.
> It makes more sense for a user who wants pppd always running to make
> the S links, not edit the script.
Well, I believe the model for this was taken from older X packages, so
it's not like Alvar (who I believe instituted the change) created the
idiom out of whole cloth.
Hello,
This in indeed the case. There was a discussion about all this a long time ago.
I always beleived that the "correct" debian way to do things was to make the /etc/rc.?/S... for everybody and putting the actual switch that activated ppp in the /etc/init.d/ppp script. At the time this was consistent will the idea that there was lots of edit based configuration in the /etc/rc.init files. It might be worthwile leaving things as they are and getting the post-inst script to ask if the user wants ppp to start automatically and sed-ing the /etc/init.d/ppp script as appropriate.
PS Sorry for the poor format of this mail - the reason that I have had to give up the ppp package is because I am currently involved in a M$ VC++ project and I have to use M$ Exchange :(
alvar
This may have already been said in a message I didn't see, but if
you're not going to have it install the links by default, the postinst
should definitely ask if they should be installed.
Mike.
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