[Mageia-dev] Help: Please find me initscripts without LSB headers!

Wed Apr 11 12:24:35 CEST 2012

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:07, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> Hi,
+>
+> I need to find all initscripts we ship that do not contain LSB header
+> information!
+>
+> Ideally you should find them and fix the scripts, but if in doubt ask me!
+>
+> This is the result of debug work on:
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5262#c19
+>
+> Where overzealous use of priorities from non-LSB compatible scripts has
+> resulted in ordering cycle deadlocks. We need to nuke these problems.
+>
+> This can be fixed by providing proper LSB headers in initscripts (likely
+> easier) or native systemd units (better if you can do it).
+>
+> Here is a document that tracks all packages we provide which provide
+> sysvinit scripts. Please can people go through the list and fill in the
+> blanks. I've started it off. The only cells to free edit are either your
+> name, or notes about things. The others have data validation  - i.e. a
+> drop down. I've provided links to subversion which in many cases is
+> sufficient to verify the initscripts as they are often just included in
+> the SOURCES folder, not packaged upstream. For some however you will
+> need to check a bit.
+
+Can't this be automated?
+Get the list of binary rpms containing initscripts with urpmf (I guess
+that's what you did), extract the initiscripts from a local mirror,
+grep to see if they have LSB Headers?
+