Re: package scripts calling update-rc.d on upgrades
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:09:26PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > The fact that removed symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/ get recreated on
> > > update and installs after remove (as opposed to virgin/after
> > > purge) annoyed me for some time now. Couldn't this be fixed by
> > > only calling 'update-rc.d install' on install and not on update
> > > and only if the initscript is not already there?
> > Right, but the maintainers probably just don't know that (or didn't know
> > when they first added it to their package scripts). Bugs should be filed
> > against packages (and against debhelper and deb-make) in case they have a
> > update-rc.d line in postinst without checking $2 is empty.
>
> This doesn't always work: when you add an init.d script in version 2.1 of
> your package, upgrades from 1.0 -> 3.4 should create the link while upgrades
> from 2.2 -> 3.4 shouldn't change it.
Well, then package could simply dpkg --compare-versions $2 lt 2.1, or
something (besides, that's a corner case :).
> If, instead of just deleting all the S20 and K20 links (or whatever) you
> instead delete just the S links, update-rc.d will behave how you expect.
True...
> Someone should probably document this in the debian administrator's manual.
> Somebody should probably collect all the stuff that's currently been written
> for the Debian administrator's manual and upload it to woody, too.
You mean System Administrator's manual or Network Administrator's manual?
Anyway, the former seems quite incomplete to be packaged... then again if we
packaged it, people could see it and perhaps enhance it faster.
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