[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#383425: Bug#383425: lighttpd: Distinguish installation from activation

[Pierre Habouzit]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:03:52AM +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Package: lighttpd
> Followup-For: Bug #383425
> 
> Of course, this problem is not specific to lighttpd.  The same problem
> occurs with other daemons which you may notwant to enable system-wide
> but that users may want to use, such as MPD.  Of course, the problem
> also occurs in other circumstances, such as when creating a Debian
> system inside a chroot jail.  I understand the desire to make it easy
> for the end user to just "install&start" the thing, but that doesn't
> mean it should be the only way to operate.  More specifically, I think
> the packages should fundamentally distinguish installation from
> activation.  The default might be to activate at install time, but
> there should then be an option to prevent the activation step.  Making
> the install fail just because you can't start the thing is
> fundamentally incorrect.

  No it's not. In a jail/chroot/whatever usually you hack your
invoke-rc.d and friends so that it doesnt start things in postinst.

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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder at debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org
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