[Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init

Tue Jan 29 10:25:57 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and JA Magallón at 29/01/13 00:03 did gyre and gimble:
+> Hi...
+> 
+> After a test with symlinks -r, I discovered I had /etc/rc.d full of
+> dangling symlinks, due to services moved to systemd.
+> 
+> Should an update of initscripts clean them (symlinks -rd /etd/rc.d) ?
+> I suppose this will also happen when people updates mga2 to mga3...
+> 
+> I also discovered what seem like leftovers from previous conversions in
+> /etc/rc.d/init.d:
+> 
+> - dm (native prefdm exists)
+> - irqbalance (package includes both, native and sysv)
+> - linux_logo (same, native+sysv)
+> - lm_sensors (idem)
+> - mpd (idem)
+> - mysqld (idem)
+> - portreserve (idem)
+> 
+> - netconsole (package is not even in the repos)
+> - partmon (idem)
+> 
+> Are we in time to correct these for Mageia 3 ?
+> And to switch the remins to systemd, like resolvconf or postfix ?
+
+The fact that both exist is a minor annoyance at the moment I think.
+Would certainly be nice to remove them if the maintainers have the
+time/inclination, but it shouldn't affect the system.
+
+As for the dangling symlinks, yeah we should really fix that. I guess a
+generic file trigger would maybe work? You have to be somewhat careful
+as the symlinks can sometimes be "broken" when on a chroot (although 99%
+of the time, they are all relative).
+
+Col
+
+
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