Bug#423095: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#423095: sysvinit: Allow bootsplash packages to hook into fsck events

[David Härdeman]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:47:29PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>[David Härdeman]
>> Here's a more complete stub (/lib/init/splash-functions-base) file which 
>> should allow many more scripts to use the generic functions.
>
>This API looks quite good, and I suspect it will handle most needs.
>We might need some splash_start_if_not_running() or similar, for the
>cases where it need to be restarted.

splash_start would perhaps be enough, that it's a NOP if a splash is 
already running is implicit :)

>Also, this function need to have more features:
>
>> # Tells the splash the current boot progress in percent (as $1)
>> splash_progress () { return 0; }
>
>In usplash, the progress bar can go both ways, depending on the sign
>of the progress value.  It is used during shutdown.  We probably want
>to support it in the API.

Yes, should be enough to add one more line stating that shutdown 
progress is defined as negative percent values?

>Also, to stay compatible with the current behaviour, I suspect the
>default functions should implement usplash support until usplash
>includes the override file in the package.

Even if we synchronize the uploads of a fixed usplash and sysvinit?

usplash is a bit broken right now with the integration with different 
boot scripts so I'm not sure it's necessary...

-- 
David Härdeman