[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#668354: /etc/rcN.d/[SK]* symlinks are ignored if not mentioned on the /etc/init.d/.depend.* TARGETS

[Teodor MICU]

reassign 668354 sysvinit-utils
retitle 668354 /etc/rcN.d/[SK]* symlinks are ignored if not mentioned on TARGETS
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2012/9/20 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>:
> [Teodor MICU]
>> The bug is that the boot process should not depend on the insserv
>> internals (/etc/init.d/.depend.*). You have a S/K??service link than
>> execute it accordingly.
>
> Note that the /etc/init.d/.depend.* files are the method used to
> communicate dependencies between insserv and startpar, which is the
> tool used to start init.d scripts in parallell.  Thus the issue at
> hand is not really with insserv, but with startpar.

Good to know. After a short look at the code (and a biiig guess on my
part) is that this fix will require some changes in 'makeboot.c' to
function filter_files(). Can anyone confirm or guide me to the right
direction?

Cheers