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Re: Strang shutdown mechanism with Debian



On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 10:31:14AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:
>     Martin> If you call update-rc.d in the postinst script and there
>     Martin> exist runlevels, the configuration is NOT touched.  And
>     Martin> since we have two different rc/rcS methods
>     Martin> (sysvinit+dpkg/file-rc) you even can't rename the link.
> 
> Given that it's the order not the names that's significant, could
> update-rc.d be made smart enough to rename scripts while maintaining
> their relative order?

Yes, but that would be against policy.  I hope it won't be implemented
as default method.  File-rc provides a -f (force) mechanism, to do
so.

>     Martin> I won't consider this bad.  Please go ahead.
> Done.

Already seen. :-)

Regards,

	Joey

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