[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#573550: legacy mode not working as advertised

[martin f krafft]

Package: sysv-rc
Version: 2.87dsf-8.1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d

[offline filing, please excuse duplicates]

# update-rc.d -f puppetmaster remove && update-rc.d puppetmaster stop 00 1 2 3 4 5 6 . && ls /etc/rc?.d/*puppetmaster
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
update-rc.d: warning: puppetmaster start runlevel arguments (none) do not match LSB Default-Start values (2 3 4 5)
update-rc.d: warning: puppetmaster stop runlevel arguments (1 2 3 4 5 6) do not match LSB Default-Stop values (0 1 6)
/etc/rc0.d/K01puppetmaster  /etc/rc3.d/S26puppetmaster  /etc/rc6.d/K01puppetmaster
/etc/rc1.d/K01puppetmaster  /etc/rc4.d/S26puppetmaster
/etc/rc2.d/S26puppetmaster  /etc/rc5.d/S26puppetmaster

Yes, the manpage says that start/stop/defaults only work for legacy
mode, but the fact that update-rc.d still succeeds (exit code 0)
even though it didn't do what the admin requested, is misleading.

I suggest that on non-legacy systems, the commands exit with an
error. It would also be nice to have e.g. a -f flag to force the
behaviour nonetheless. The enable/disable commands work as well, so
fundamentally there is no reason why the admin shouldn't be able to
modify the links with update-rc.d.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sysv-rc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.28      Debian configuration management sy
ii  insserv                      1.12.0-14   Tool to organize boot sequence usi
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.87dsf-8.1 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages sysv-rc recommends:
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages sysv-rc suggests:
pn  bum                           <none>     (no description available)
pn  sysv-rc-conf                  <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded


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