Re: rc?.d policy?
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote:
> But if a user removes the S99xdm link in rc2.d then the next time xdm is
> upgraded it will be added again. This issue of the package managment
> tools over writing what the system administrator sets has been debated
> before, in favor of the system administrator(Recall the /usr/doc/*.gz
> issue recently on -devel). This is what I was describing. Mike, or
> anyone else, can you clarify why Debian does not have a destinction
> between user runlevels for things like networking, X, etc?
>
I do not believe that is the case. The upgrade of xdm will run
update-rc.d, which will see that there are already symlinks installed and
exit without changing anything. That is, unless the -f option is passed
to update-rc.d, which should probably not be the case in any package.
This assumes that there is at least one symlink for this package somewhere
in rc*.d. If there are no symlinks at all (why upgrade the package if you
don't use it?) then update-rc.d will create them.
I could be wrong, but this seems to be my experience.
noah
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