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

Wed Apr 18 00:48:19 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 11/04/12 11:55 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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
+...
+> yum
+> zoneminder
+
+I've incorporated this list into the spreadsheet. I've fixed a few of them.
+
+Again, if any packagers are able to help out here, Please do!!!
+
+Here is the link again:
+https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjumKqYMRG9WdHdkRWM3dUhEYms5T1BkR05KRnp6V1E
+
+You only need to look at the ones marked "Broken" in bold now. If you
+fix it, please change it to "Has LSB" or "Native" depending on your fix.
+
+Some of the broken ones may have native systemd units anyway (might
+contain some false positives).
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+
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