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Re: Getting dependency based boot fixed for wheezy



Roger Leigh schrieb am Tuesday, den 03. July 2012:

> Hi,
> 
> We've been defaulting to dependency based for new installs for
> several years.  Since last week, sysv-rc unconditionally uses
> dependency-based boot.  file-rc is the last package using
> static sequencing.
> 
> I'd like (for wheezy+1) to remove the static sequence numbers
> entirely.  To do this, we need to get update-rc.d to treat the
> start and stop arguments as being equivalent to "defaults", so
> it always uses the LSB dependencies.  We can't, however, do this
> while there are packages using those numbers, and we need to fix
> these packages in wheezy so that it's possible to do the
> migration in wheezy+1.
> 
> file-rc now has a patch to enable insserv support (#539591).  I'd
> like for this to be fixed in wheezy.  It requires the following
> changes:
> 
> 1) Enabling of the insserv -s option (#573004).  This is a one-
>    line change to debian/patches/series, since the patch is
>    already in place and tested.
> 2) Uploading of fixed file-rc to fix #539591
> 3) Disabling of the static boot reversion on removal in sysv-rc,
>    since it's no longer needed when file-rc supports insserv.
> 
> Since we're frozen, I just wanted to get approval for doing the
> above.  It's important for the work we want to do in wheezy+1, as
> well as for properly supporting dependency-based boot in wheezy.
Just for the record this change is coordinated with file-rc
maintainer/upstream (thats me).

Alex
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