[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#606505: sysv-rc: update-rc.d(8) gives bad example for disabling a service

[Sven Joachim]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.88dsf-13
Severity: normal

The EXAMPLES section of update-rc.d.8 recommends this method to disable
a service:

,----
| 	Example of disabling a service:
| 	   update-rc.d -f foobar remove
| 	   update-rc.d foobar stop 20 2 3 4 5 .
`----

This does not work in a dependency based boot system, because
update-rc.d ignores the arguments in last line and uses the values from
the LSB headers instead.

Here is a patch for that:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- update-rc.d.8	(revision 1950)
+++ update-rc.d.8	(working copy)
@@ -284,8 +284,7 @@
 .fi 
 Example of disabling a service:
 .nf 
-.B "   update\-rc.d \-f foobar remove"
-.B "   update\-rc.d foobar stop 20 2 3 4 5 ."
+.B "   update\-rc.d foobar disable"
 .fi 
 Example of a command for installing a system initialization\-and\-shutdown script:
 .nf 
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-rc5-nouveau+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.37     Debian configuration management sy
ii  insserv                       1.14.0-2   Tool to organize boot sequence usi
ii  sysvinit-utils                2.88dsf-13 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-26     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum                           <none>     (no description available)
ii  sysv-rc-conf                  0.99-6     SysV init runlevel configuration t

-- debconf information:
  sysv-rc/unable-to-convert:
  sysv-rc/convert-legacy: true