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From: Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Transitioning from #!/sbin/runscript to,#!/sbin/openrc-run
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 08:58:05
Message-Id: 3b010645-c744-5198-5773-e60bf5560667@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Transitioning from #!/sbin/runscript to,#!/sbin/openrc-run by Sam Jorna
1 On 05/04/2016 10:52 AM, Sam Jorna wrote:
2 > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:00:05AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
3 >>>>>>> On Wed, 4 May 2016, Austin English wrote:
4 >>
5 >>>> Your list of affected packages obtained with "git grep" in the
6 >>>> Portage tree will not be complete, since the command won't catch
7 >>>> any init scripts installed from elsewhere. You should look for the
8 >>>> set of installed files instead.
9 >>
10 >>> How is that relevant here at all? I'm cleaning up portage installed
11 >>> init scripts, [...]
12 >>
13 >> You are cleaning up only those init scripts that are installed from
14 >> FILESDIR, but you will miss the ones that are installed from a file
15 >> in SRC_URI.
16 >
17 > Perhaps an alternate way to do it would be to have a QA check look at
18 > any files installed to ${D}etc/init.d/ and throw a warning if their
19 > shebang is "#!/sbin/runscript"
20 >
21
22 A repoman check is a much saner approach, I'm not convinced there is
23 sufficient need for this change to begin with, in particular to start
24 touching a wide range of packages. Breaking backwards compatibility in
25 any way should have a darn good reason, and I haven't seen one yet
26
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