[Splashy-devel] Proof of concept implementation of using lsb_end_msg

[Otavio Salvador]

Tim Dijkstra <newsuser at famdijkstra.org> writes:

>> This file, describing the "steps" that will be done will need to be
>> available in initramfs, right? If yes, that means that every time we
>> update our init system adding or removing services we'll need to
>> recreate it. Besides that, there's also a corner case that's the first
>> run when we don't have this list built yep.
>
> I was thinking of running the script on every halt/reboot by putting a
> script in /etc/rc[06].d/S00AAsplashy. That way we always have an up to
> date list for the next boot. We can't make the list on boot, because 
> we may not have a writable / yet.

Oh! awesome. Yeah.

> About having the steps in initramfs: I don't think that is needed. I
> don't think the scripts in the initramfs use the lsb-functions. The
> initramfs won't take that long anyway. We could however install scripts
> in scripts/local-top or scripts/local-bottom on the initramfs which would
> do the first few steps and then start counting from 5% if we start running
> the scripts in rcS.d

IMHO, if we don't identify any regression we should merge it ASAP.

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