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

Wed Apr 11 12:30:40 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 11/04/12 11:24 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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?
+
+That part can be automated I guess. I don't have a handy mirror tho'.
+Also if the script has native systemd it might be a false negative, but
+I guess they would be suitably small to be checked by hand.
+
+That said, the list isn't super long :)
+
+Col
+
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