Bug#225465: (no subject)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Noting from 225855:
> H> Anyone that has read (and paid close attention to) the update-rc.d
> H> manpage (in unstable) knows that.  But it also means you can't use
> H> update-rc.d to do "local administrator" changes to the links (changes
> H> made by update-rc.d ARE lost in the next update), and THAT gets people
> H> confused.
> 
> Miquel> Again, nonsense. update-rc.d will only install the links if *no*
> Miquel> /etc/rc?.d/[S]*package_name links are present. It will never make
> Miquel> changes to existing configurations.

Hmm, so packages that need to update the runlevel setup have to go through a
remove-then-add operation.  I didn't recall that, but so be it.

So, local-admin-changes cannot even be done normally using update-rc.d, it
will simply do nothing unless all links were removed.  You need the same
steps a package would have to take: remove-then-add-back.

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  Henrique Holschuh