[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Fixing hwclock.sh

[Thomas Hood]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> But, third, where did you get that code?  That's not how /etc/init.d/rc looks now.
> 
> /etc/init.d/rcS

Aha!

It's there in 2.86.ds1-1 (sarge) but gone in 2.86.ds1-4 (etch), which contains just:

> exec /etc/init.d/rc S

OK, here's the relevant change log entry:

> sysvinit (2.86.ds1-1.2) unstable; urgency=low
>   [...]
>   * Merged rcS into rc. (Closes: #326460)
>   [...]
>  -- Petter Reinholdtsen

In #326460 the submitter (Petter Reinholdtsen) writes:

> There is no reason to use two different scripts for running rcS.d and
> rc#.d/.  This patch merge the special parts of rcS into rc, and make
> sure rcS calls rc with 'S' as the argument.

Petter: This change eliminated the parentheses, the trap commands and the "set start".
All of these should probably be reintroduced somehow.  Can you take care of this?

The absence of "set start" is reported in #345267.
-- 
Thomas