On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:39:40AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > When a package is installed or upgraded and it require a startup script, > update-rc.d is invoked to set up the appropriate links in the runlevels > to start the service at bootime. > > If a user want to install a package but he don't want to start up the > related service at boot time, he have to invoke "update-rc.d -f > <script_name> remove". > But if now he upgrade the related package, the start up links in the > various runlevel are created again ! not if you leave at least one link in place. one K link in runlevel 0 or 6 will do just fine. > We can wonder about why a user have to install a package and not to > startup the service, but "why he can't do such a thing" ? he can > We can add a database to update-rc.d that record the user preference and > use it as a run-level manager. > > What do you think about it ? no need. enhancing update-rc.d to include an option to only remove S links or something like that could be useful. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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