Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.

Trent W. Buck twb at cybersource.com.au
Tue Mar 9 00:43:18 UTC 2010


Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>> pbuilder currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from
>> starting when they are installed to satisfy build dependencies.
>> This works well for sysvinit packages.
>>
>> However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons
>> use upstart instead of sysvinit.  Thus, they ignore policy-rc.d,
>> try (and fail) to start, further causing the postinst, dpkg,
>> satisfybuildepends and ultimately the entire pdebuild to fail.
>
> Erm... why not fix upstart to respect policy-rc.d ?

I don't know if it should -- I'm just a lowly sysadmin.  By all means
try to convince the upstart people to support policy-rc.d.  If so,
please retitle and reassign this ticket to upstart.





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