[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#546532: Bug#546532: Bug#546532: sysv-rc: invoke-rc.d does not default to a sensitive behaviour when no start o stop symlink is found

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> On Sunday 13 September 2009 17:25:25 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > > Package foo ships an init script called foo and starts on the default
> > > runlevels; but the administrator wants to manually start it, never
> > > automatically, so she rm /etc/rc*.d/S*foo (because she is not aware of
> > > the warning of update-rc.d). The foo package also ships a logrotate rule,
> > > which
> >
> > Counter example: packages in rcS.d like udev ship scripts with no
> > information about what shold be done on any runlevel other than S.
> >
> > Now you try to upgrade it, and it gets stopped and not restarted.  Bang!
> 
> Not quite valid because it would match
>     elif testexec ${SSLINK} ; then
>         RC=104
> 
> and would therefore be executed.

Hmm... so we have a work-around for that already?  (looks in the source)
well, I will be.  We do, and it is likely that I was the one who wrote
that code, even...

Objections lifted.  Just in case, I'd recommend testing that start and
restart work out-of-runlevel for S scripts with the patch applied, but I
think we should apply the patch.

Thanks, Raphael.  And I apologise for not reading the invoke-rc.d code
before objecting to the patch.

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  Henrique Holschuh