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

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:27:41PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Aurelien Jarno]
> > It will stay unique across as we don't have udev.
> 
> Right.  Still seem like a bad idea to me. :)
> 
> > Also I think the dependency on udev should be understood as "/dev is
> > ready", and our script is doing this job.
> 
> Well, on systems without udev (which is allowed on Linux at least at
> the moment), missing udev do not mean /dev/ is not ready.  The udev
> dependency is just supposed to be understood as 'udev is operational',
> and nothing more. :)
> 
> > The script causing problem is keyboard-setup (console-tools), needed
> > for xorg.
> 
> Right.  The start header lines should probably look more like this
> instead of the current content:
> 
> # Required-Start:    mountkernfs
> # Should-Start:      keymap udev
> 
> Then it would work without udev too. :) If you report the bug, please
> usertag it to show up on
> <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=initscripts-ng-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>.
> 

Thanks for the patch. I'll try it and report the bug tomorrow.

I would still appreciate that you look at the initial patch I sent you
though, as it will avoid duplicating code already provided by sysvinit
or workarounding part of it in a kfreebsd specific initscript.

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