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

Thu Apr 12 01:47:34 CEST 2012

Hiya,
+
+Others have answered your other points, so that just leaves me with....
+
+'Twas brillig, and Remco Rijnders at 11/04/12 18:50 did gyre and gimble:
+> Noticing at least one of "my" packages on the list, I am left with a few
+> questions:
+> 
+> 1) What happens if it doesn't get fixed?
+
+Bad things! Kittens will cry and puppies noses will go dry.
+
+Basically, it complicates things. Rather than using "real" dependency
+info found in LSB headers to determine any transaction ordering
+requirements (e.g. when starting all services needed at boot), all we
+have to go on are the priority numbers in the chkconfig line or the nn
+values in the /etc/rc?.d/S[nn]script symlink. This is OK for something,
+but it imposes far too strict (and 99% bogus) set of ordering
+requirements for the boot transaction.
+
+This overly strict ordering imposed can lead to cycles in the
+transaction requirements. systemd will break the cycle but it will do so
+rather brutally by dropping jobs - on more than one occasion, this has
+resulted in prefdm.service's start job getting dropped. i.e. no
+graphical display.
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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