Bug#201182: Not exactly frivolous
On 16 Jul 2003 04:42:18 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> said:
>>>>>> "T" == Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
T> Well, it's not exactly frivolous. If we were designing the system
T> from scratch we would probably have the initscripts return a
T> non-zero status on failure to perform the requested action.
T> Programs calling the initscripts could then choose to ignore this
T> return value. But it would be too much work to change the whole
T> system to work this way now.
> Too bad there is 'no room' to mention this anywhere in the docs.
You are both missing the point. Init scripts are conffiles
(with reason). conffiles are not removed when a package is removed,
only upon purge. When I remove a package with an init script, I do
not want to be bombarded at boot up with extraneous error messages
Hence, if the packages does not exist, the init scripts are
nops. This has nothing to do with return values, which can be
proposed for normal operation.
This is the specific case for initscripts belonging to a
removed package.
manoj
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