Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Mike Bird <mgb-debian@yosemite.net> wrote:
> On Thu December 30 2010 16:24:19 Tom H wrote:
>> As an aside, you refer to the pre-insserv setup as "Snn/Knn startup
>> mechanism" but insserv doesn't deviate from that style. insserv
>> creates the Snn/Knn symlinks dynamically in an order determined by a
>> set of dependencies. pre-insserv the symlinks' order was set
>> statically by the maintainers.
>
> That's a good point Tom. insserv is not even properly parallel,
> just some kind of half-@$$ed semi-parallel - starting groups of
> services in parallel but the groups are run serially. I'd like
> to call the old mechanism "sysv-rc" but the insserv developer has
> abused the Debian package upgrade process to turn "sysv-rc" into
> insserv hell.
>
> We're trying to figure out the cleanest way to stop insserv from
> throwing away all the Snn/Knn information that Debian Developers
> have created over the years. Then we'll attempt to reset the
> Snn/Knn to those sane values.
>
> My first thought was a loop over "update-rc.d $script defaults" but
> that no longer seems to work. Still looking for a clean remedy.
> Hopefully there's a nice on-off switch in there somewhere. I'm
> mostly working on some other projects now but I hope to be able to
> work on this full-time in a few days.
>
> --Mike Bird
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608437
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