On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:40:51PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > It's not just about supporting xinetd, as I hope the initial post > made clear. It's using the xinetd syntax certainly (why reinvent > the wheel when you can reuse the format as the superset used by all > existing inetds?), but the primary benefits are making inetd support > in maintainer scripts both robust and idempotent. update-inetd in its present form can already be used to achieve this. Unfortunately, the runes to accomplish it are rather underdocumented; but I think the right way to address that is with better documentation. (Once upon a time, I started drafting a blog entry shortly after I worked through how to fit update-inetd into the maintainer script state machine; unfortunately I didn't finish that draft before the details fled my short term memory, and I don't even remember which package I was looking at. :( ) > The current update-inetd implementation is flaky junk which is used both > incorrectly and inconsistently, and can cause loss of system > customisation by the sysadmin as a result. I don't believe that the proposed replacement is immune to the possibility of misuse. > > > * document that local policy will live in /etc/inetd.conf.d/ and any manual > > > changes will be made effective by running update-inetd > > I also consider not acceptable that manual configuration changes are > > ignored unless some program is run. > There are many obvious examples of update-foo scripts which behave in > this manner. The requirement to run a script to update the working > configuration is nothing new in Debian. The only obvious example I have of an update-* script that a user has to run to effect changes to their config is update-grub. And update-grub has been an unqualified disaster. (Some of the reasons for which don't apply in this case, I'll grant you - but I certainly wouldn't agree that there are good precedents for this in Debian.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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