[Pkg-sysvinit-commits] r892 - sysvinit/trunk/debian

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Author: pere
Date: 2006-09-09 08:11:06 +0000 (Sat, 09 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 892

Modified:
   sysvinit/trunk/debian/NEWS
Log:
More text in the NEWS file.

Modified: sysvinit/trunk/debian/NEWS
===================================================================
--- sysvinit/trunk/debian/NEWS	2006-09-09 00:00:32 UTC (rev 891)
+++ sysvinit/trunk/debian/NEWS	2006-09-09 08:11:06 UTC (rev 892)
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 sysvinit (2.86.ds1-19) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  The script proposed below had a problem with removed but not purged
-  packages.  This version check to make sure the package is installed
-  before trying to reinstall it:
+  The script proposed below is dangerous, as it had a problem with
+  removed but not purged packages.  For such packages, it could end up
+  trying to remove quite a lot of packages.  This version check to
+  make sure the package is installed before trying to reinstall it:
 
     for p in `dpkg -S /etc/init.d/*|cut -d: -f1|sort -u`; do
       if dpkg --get-selections $p | grep -qw install ; then
@@ -12,7 +13,10 @@
     done
 
   It will ask for each package if it should be reinstalled or not.  To
-  avoid this, add -y as an argument for apt-get.
+  avoid this, add -y as an argument for apt-get.  An alternative to
+  reinstalling all these packages is to look in /var/log/dpkg.log for
+  the packages that was installed and upgraded between sysv-rc version
+  2.86.ds1-16 and version 2.86.ds1-18, and only reinstall these.
 
  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org>  Thu,  8 Sep 2006 15:40:50 +0200