Re: Why is help so hard to find?
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> writes:
> > I've yet to find a single system which upgraded to insserv cleanly.
> > This is mostly due to removed packages which need fully purging to
> > remove the last traces of old init scripts which break the process.
>
> Huh. Every system I've upgraded had no problems. What is the failure
> mode? What happens on those systems?
One of the things which happens is #606588 because insserv doesn't do
#606593 yet. Also, #598020.
Don Armstrong
#606588 [i| |☺] [unscd] unscd: Uninstallable if NSCD already installed and using dependency based boot
#598020 [S| | ] [insserv] barfs when there are "invalid" init scripts
#606593 [i| |♔] [insserv] insserv needs to support multiple packages providing the same service
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