[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#542953: sysvinit: fixes for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 05:50:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Aurelien Jarno]
> > It is possible,
> 
> Right.
> 
> > but that just mean we need to split our script in 4 or 5 scripts.
> 
> Then I am lost again.  How could this work earlier with one script, if
> it can't work without many script with dependency based boot
> sequencing.  One should be able to get a script into any position in
> the boot with dependencies, and if that worked earlier, why not any
> more?  What package contain the script?  I am, as you can see, curious
> how it used to be done.
> 

Let's give an example. Our script, among other things does:
- Ensure that /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts, and that has to be
  done before mtab.sh so that it don't remove /dev. It also needs to start
  after checkroot to be able to write on the file system.
- Setup the permissions in /dev. It roughly corresponds to udev, and
  needs to provide udev, otherwise insserv is not able to solve
  the dependencies.

So freebsd-utils needs checkroot, which needs mountdevsubfs, which should
start udev which is provided by freebsd-utils => insserv fails.

The patch among other things make sure that mtab.sh don't destroy /dev
and ensure that /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts, so the
dependency on checkroot can be dropped.

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