Bug#260952: dpkg: start-stop-daemon should have no-action mode
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.22
Severity: wishlist
when working with a chroot, it would be most useful if start-stop-daemon
could have a no-action mode defined by an environment variable, such as:
START_STOP_DAEMON_NO_ACT=true
if the environment variable were present, start-stop-daemon should
merely report something like:
"NOTE: start-stop-daemon called in no act mode, exiting"
and exit with status 0
this would be useful for packages such as debootstrap so that it
wouldn't have to move aside the start-stop-daemon during base
installation.
lessdisks-terminal is another package which could make use of this
feature.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.22 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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