Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On 05/16/2012 09:37 AM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: >> >>> The >>> interactivity is really bad, causing more trouble than benefit. >>> Imagine an installation with removed init script, where it is >>> reactivated by an upgrade. >>> >> Stuff like that is always messy, no matter from which angle you look at >> it. There usually are ways to permanently disable init scripts, though. > > You mean the suggested > > # update-rc.d drbd disable > > on a Debian system? > > I am not sure how the > > update-rc.d drbd defaults > > in the Debian package of drbd respects the admins 'disable' in case of > an package upgrade (i.e. apt-get upgrade). I believe the permanent way to inhibit the starting of a service is to install LSB overrides (on a distribution that honours those - Debian does so as of Squeeze afaik). > According to Debian policy changes in the configuration of init scripts > should be kept. But the policy is written a little bit fuzzy there. > > I will test in the next weeks what exactly happens.