[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#375183: invoke-rc.d: Uses hardcoded path to policy-rc.d

[Riku Voipio]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 11:47:51AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> These two comments are the only claims I find in the BTS report that
> this change is _needed_, and neither explain why.  Can any of you
> explain why it is needed?  Why can't the sysadmin make a package with
> his own /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d?  I'm not against the change, but
> believe the specification need to change and for that it would be
> useful to have a clear rationale.

The need is that d-i and similar create a /target/usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
by hand. It makes /usr/sbin unclean, as it is no longer completely managed
by package managment. Creating a package does not seem like a clean solution
as it must be installed only for initial install.

-- 
"rm -rf" only sounds scary if you don't have backups
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