Bug#573550: affects squeeze, package has only been updated in testing

[Felipe Sateler]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 9:39 AM Dmitry Bogatov <KAction at debian.org> wrote:

>
> [2019-01-01 22:38] Dmitry Bogatov <KAction at debian.org>
> > [2018-12-29 19:51] Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>
> > > Am 29.12.18 um 19:34 schrieb Dmitry Bogatov:
> > > > control: reassign -1 init-system-helpers
> > >
> > > How should we handle bugs that are really sysvinit specific, even if
> > > they affect update-rc.d/invoke-rc.d (i.e. init-system-helpers)
> > >
> > > No one of the current init-system-helpers is using sysvinit anymore, so
> > > bug reports like this one are bound to get forgotten/ignored.
> >
> > Quite unfortunate situation. Okay, I will take a look at it myself.
> >
> > > Should we usertag them somehow so those sysvinit specific issues are
> > > on the radar on the sysvinit maintainers?  This really needs a
> > > fix/patch from someone actively using sysvinit.
> >
> > Just added usertag.
>
> Okay. I believe this bug could be closed on timeout, and both 'start'
> and 'stop' sub-actions could be dropped, together with `sysv_plain'
> (pre-boot-dependency) part.
>

They are already mapped to `defaults`


>
> What worries me is that `update-rc.d defaults' do not seems to
> work (insserv=1.18.0):
>
>   # update-rc.d cron disable 3
>   insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (2 4 5) of script `cron'
> overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
>   insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (3) of script `cron'
> overrides LSB defaults (empty).
>   # update-rc.d cron defaults
>   insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (2 4 5) of script `cron'
> overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
>   insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (3) of script `cron'
> overrides LSB defaults (empty).
>   # insserv cron
>   insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (2 4 5) of script `cron'
> overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
>   insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (3) of script `cron'
> overrides LSB defaults (empty).
>   # insserv cron -f
>   insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (2 4 5) of script `cron'
> overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
>   insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (3) of script `cron'
> overrides LSB defaults (empty).
>   # update-rc.d cron enable 3
>
> As can be seen, neither `update-rc.d defaults' nor direct invocation of
> /sbin/insserv do not restore runlevels, prescribed by LSB header. Jesse,
> am I doing it wrong?


To preserve admin modifications, `update-rc.d defaults` must not touch any
existing links. That's documented in the manpage:

> If  any files named /etc/rcrunlevel.d/[SK]??name already exist then
update-rc.d does nothing.


-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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