[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#683802: Bug#683802: sysvinit: Lintian: E: init.d-script-should-depend-on-virtual-facility [patch]

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2012/8/4 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>:
> [Martin-Éric Racine]
>> Btw, this is an incorrect assumption. The check applies to
>> iniscripts, because we're using commands that reside in the /usr
>> hierarchy, which cannot be assumed to be available until $remote_fs
>> has been mounted.
>
> I assume that some of the scripts in initscripts are part of the
> definition of $remote_fs and only use commands in /usr when it is safe
> to do so, and thus got this correct.  Some of these scripts are 'half
> of $remote_fs', and can not depend on themselves. :)
>
> And this I believe is a correct assumtion.  If I am wrong, please
> provide a concrete example.  :)

Let's do this the other way around:  provide concrete examples that
using commands from the /usr hierarchy without first ensuring that
$remote_fs is mounted is perfectly safe. Also demonstrate how some of
those scripts can be a part of $remote_fs when networking (and thus
mounting of remote filesystems) only happens later during rc2, and yet
we are talking about scripts shipped as a part of sysvinit, which
exist within rcS.