[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#339990: Please test latest mountall.sh

[Thomas Hood]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> I tested the new script and it seems to work fine here. Although I must
> admit that I liked the idea of catching the output from mount and only
> displaying it if VERBOSE is set to yes in your older version. 
> The standard version shouldn't output all this messages to keep the
> output during bootup uncluttered.
> You know, no news is good news ;-)

It has always been difficult to provide beautiful initscript output because
of the fact that called programs (not to mention the kernel) interject
messages between a script's "Doing..." and "done" messages.  That task has
only been made harder by the new goal of maintaining compatibility with
Ubuntu and the decision to introduce a bunch of half-baked lsb init-functions.
Another source of difficulty is the fact that POSIX shells offer no convenient
way of grepping stderr separately from stdout.

I think that we should be satisfied for now if the messages get printed on
both Debian and Ubuntu in a fairly logical order and with consistent
formatting.  Then the user can scramble everything by enabling parallel
execution of initscripts.  :)

-- 
Thomas