Re: update-rc.d: Removal of start and stop actions
On 19-05-13 17:47, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the release of wheezy, all systems should be using dependency-
> based booting. This makes the provision of static sequence ordering
> pointless, but the update-rc.d interface still allows sequence
> numbers to be passed for its start, stop and defaults actions. They
> just get ignored when using insserv, but they still need providing
> unless you are using defaults with no options (which is recommended).
>
> I'm planning on merging these two patches:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/rleigh/sysvinit.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ed24526866d93e28ae3a501b131d5efe002f11a
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/rleigh/sysvinit.git;a=commitdiff;h=48daa9d5c8e28f8669e5b85cd369605c8254232c
>
> These do the following:
> - remove all support for non-dependency-based boot; in practice, this
> code hasn't been used for a couple of stable releases, since we always
> used the insserv code.
> - remove support for start and stop; the options still exist, but they
> just invoke the "defaults" action. This was already the case with
> insserv, but it's now explicit.
> - the update-rc.d(8) manpage is updated to remove all the legacy
> documentation and examples. This should make it clear what's
> currently supported, and it greatly simplifies the interface.
>
> None of this should affect anyone since in practice there will be no
> noticable difference other than the addition of a warning if the start
> or stop actions are used. I'm just bringing it up in case this will
> cause anyone problems--in which case shout now before it's changed!
How does this relate to file-rc?
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