Re: Bug#825975: sysvinit: Add missing poweroff on hurd-i386

[Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@debian.org>]

[2019-01-11 15:50] Richard Braun <rbraun@sceen.net>
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> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:37:16PM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> > Dear colleagues, I seek your advice.
> > 
> > Samuel, as Debian GNU/Hurd user and
> > Justin, as developer who wrote sysvinit-core.config,
> > you may be the most knowledgable about issue.
> > 
> > I am trying to understand, what is the purpose of following code in
> > sysvinit-core.config:
> > 
> > 	if [ "$(uname)" = GNU ]; then
> > 	    db_set sysvinit/hurd-fix-inittab "true"
> > 	    if echo '3e3693078d18d4696c83a76531433cd4  /etc/inittab' \
> > 	      | md5sum --status --check -; then
> > 	    # The file is unmodified, update it silently.
> > 	    :
> > 	    elif [ $(fgrep -c -e '/libexec/getty' /etc/inittab) -gt 0 ] || \
> > 	        [ $(grep -c '^c:' /etc/inittab) -eq 0 ]; then
> > 	        db_input low sysvinit/hurd-fix-inittab || true
> > 	        db_go
> > 	    fi
> > 	fi
> > 
> > What is magic md5 '3e3693078d18d4696c83a76531433cd4'? What is the state
> > of transition it was intended for?
> 
> That magic number is the md5 sum of the inittab file intended to be
> updated. The script makes sure that the inittab content is the one
> expected before updating it.

Probably, I was not clear enough. Of course, I understand "what" this
code doing, I am asking "why" and whether this "why" is still
up-to-date.