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

Wed Apr 11 12:55:19 CEST 2012

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:30, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> '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 :)
+
+Just did a quick try, packages with initscripts not containing LSB headers.
+92 initscripts in 67 packages, but there a few false positives like
+initscripts containing /etc/init.d/functions
+
+afbackup
+arpwatch
+bip
+bootparamd
+bpalogin
+canna
+clusterscripts-client
+cpqarrayd
+dhcp-forwarder
+dnotify
+dropbear
+ebtables
+fcron
+firestarter
+freepops
+ganglia-script
+gkrellm-server
+gnokii-smsd
+haveged
+hostapd
+hylafax-server
+ices
+initscripts
+ip-sentinel
+ipvsadm
+ircd-hybrid
+isdn4k-utils-eurofile
+jetty
+keepalived
+kolab
+lcdproc
+lighttpd
+maradns
+mongodb-server
+mrepo
+nginx
+nvidia-cuda-toolkit
+omniorb
+perl-kolab
+prboom-server
+prelude-lml
+pure-ftpd
+quagga
+quake2-ctf
+quake2-server
+rear
+redis
+routed
+rp-pppoe
+rrdcollect
+siproxd
+spread
+suricata
+torque
+torque-client
+udftools
+unfs3
+unimrcp
+usermode-consoleonly
+ushare
+util-vserver-legacy
+vtun
+watchdog
+xymon
+xymon-client
+yum
+zoneminder
+