[Mageia-dev] Cleaning up init

Tue Jan 29 12:43:46 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 29/01/13 10:40 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le 29/01/2013 11:19, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>> I've added a filetrigger to initscripts package to clean up the dangling
+>> symlinks.
+>>
+>> I didn't use the symlinks tool as it's not a required package.
+>>
+>> find /etc/rc.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7}.d -type l -exec sh -c 'if [ ! -e {}
+>> ]; then rm -f {}; fi' \;
+>>
+>> This does much the same job, but "find" is already used in multiple
+>> places so probably a better solution even if the command is more
+>> convoluted!
+>>
+>> If anyone spots any issues with this, please shout.
+>>
+>> It'll be in the next initscripts package and it cleaned up all the
+>> dangling symlinks in /etc/rc.d for me.
+> I'd rather modify the del-service rpm helper to remove the link when the
+> init script is removed.
+
+That would mean a very laborious version bump of the required rpm-helper
+version in lots and lots of packages, again like was done last time.
+
+While I agree that, in theory, it may be a nicer approach, I'm not
+personally willing to do the donkey work it would entail in order to get
+a smooth upgrade.
+
+If someone wants to undertake this, this, then I'd recommend using a
+macro for the version of rpm-helper that's needed which would at least
+make doing the same task next time a lot easier (actually I suspect that
+the rpm-helper service stuff will be cleaned up a lot for mga4, so it'll
+likely be needed at some point anyway - but hopefully before beta stages!!)
+
+Col
+
+
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+Colin Guthrie
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