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

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Aurelien Jarno]
> 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.

Right.  Then I understand the problem.  But I believe making it
provide udev is a bad idea, as the provides really should be unique
across the archive.  Which scripts fail to work when udev is not
provided?  As far as I know, udev should be an optional dependency,
and I would claim that any script having it as a required are buggy.

A quick search in all the init.d scripts in the archive indicate that
these scripts are buggy: alsa-utils, brltty, eeepc-acpi-scripts,
keyboard-setup, lvm2, mouseemu, multipath-tools and pcmciautils.  I
believe all these should be changed.

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

Right.

> 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.

Thank you.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen