[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Script sequence numbers

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Thomas Hood wrote:
> BTW, Ubuntu has its own policy for assigning sequence numbers to scripts in /etc/rcS.d/.
> We might want to take this policy into consideration.

May I humbly propose we finally deploy the initscripts registry?  We could
do it in a way to have Debian and any other debian-like distros show side by
side, which would be valuable for cross-polinization.  We add a column for
our comments, and we would have a valuable resource for the initscript
teams.

Debian wiki would allow such a thing to be easily constructed (if not nearly
as automated as a custom cgi-like backend).

> > Braindump (Medium):
> > Identify what we're actually doing during boot up, and decide what we
> > actually need to be doing and drop (or move) anything we don't; regroup
> > the boot sequence into clear targets ("hardware detection", "console
> > setup", "filesystem checking and mounting", etc.).
> > All of the messages printed by the boot process should be clear,
> > consistent and meaningful. 

Such kind of targets would not be directly connected to dependencies, so in
a parallel execution environment, they would not help much, I think.  What
did I miss?

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  Henrique Holschuh