[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#542953: sysvinit: fixes for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:04:29PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Aurelien Jarno]
> > Thanks for the patch. I'll try it and report the bug tomorrow.
> 
> Great.
> 
> > I would still appreciate that you look at the initial patch I sent
> > you though, as it will avoid duplicating code already provided by
> > sysvinit or workarounding part of it in a kfreebsd specific
> > initscript.
> 
> I'll do that, but am initially a bit reluctant to include special case
> code into the initscripts package.  On the other hand, I agree that
> code that should run on all systems should be part of the initscripts
> package.  As you probably can tell, I am a but unsure where to draw
> the line on this one. :)
> 

Then what about shipping different versions depending on the
architecture? That's especially true for mtab.sh that needs to do very
different on GNU/kFreeBSD (just symlinking /etc/mtab) and on GNU/Linux
(remounting everything).

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