Lintian and boot dependency violations.
Hi, i'm working on improving the boot system as part of the google
summer of code (1) with Petter Reinholdtsen as my mentor, and we are
working on a script that would check init scripts correct order. As a
result, problems with the boot process would be reduced and a faster
parallel execution could be used as a bonus.
Currently, there are some init scripts with a the wrong order like
alsa-utils and udev which are placed after programs they are supposed to
require: sysklogd and mountvirtfs respectively.
I've placed the bug reports for alsa-utils and udev but if lintian would
report when dependency information is missing, it would be easier to use
a script adjust the order of the init scripts to ensure that these are
met for each system (as dependency information would be available). With
the advantage of making parallel execution possible.
Please let me know your point of view about this issue and if you think
that this dependency information could be added to lintian.
best regards,
Carlos
1.- http://initscripts-ng.alioth.debian.org/soc2006-bootsystem/
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