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Re: Bug#545691: diverting telinit



On Mon, Oct 26 2009, Bastian Blank wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:40:56AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:43:18PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >         I created a elaborate test case tos ee if we are in a chroot, if
>> >  not if /proc/1 is actually /sbin/init, and that telinit exists (example
>> >  below).
>> Why are they not able to ignore the errors from telinit? All checked
>> packages uses this to ask init to reexecute itself and free old library
>> references. Nothing in this is critical to the usability of the packages
>> themself or the system.
>
> Oh, and this could be made even easier by defining file-based triggers
> in the package providing init instead of doing it in all the
> dependencies.

        In which case it definitely deserves discussion, some
 coordination, and perhaps a policy proposal, as well as a more generic
 solution. Which files would we be triggering on?

        manoj
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