Re: Bug#134658: ITP: lsb -- Linux Standard Base 1.1 core support package
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 04:59:14PM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote:
> Chris Lawrence (lawrencc@debian.org) said:
> > Actually, they use the defined interface to init, so they should work
> > with any init that supports update-rc.d (per policy). The readme may
> > be overspecific on this point by referring to sysvinit.
>
> update-rc.d is SysV init specific.
Actually, it's not. Perhaps you should lookup the debian package file-rc
which uses a file to handle the init scripts rather than sysVinit.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/file-rc.html
There are also other init machanisms supported. You could say that debian
was ahead of its time here.
> The LSB defining a sane way of genericizing init script installation and
> removal without adding SysV inspired braindamage is a glimmer of hope
> that one day I'll be able to use the NetBSD rc.d system [1] or Linux
> boot scripts [2] with Debian, both of which suck substantially less than
> SysV init.
update-rc.d is already generic. Check it out. Many people do indeed like it.
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