Debian Developers - Re: Bug#438885: Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d

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Re: Bug#438885: Mass bug filling: must use invoke-rc.d

David Claughton

2007-08-24, 1:26 pm

Amaya wrote:
> In most cases the fix should be simple, replace this:
>
> /etc/init.d/package <action>
>
> with this:
>
> if which invoke-rc.d >/dev/null 2>&1; then
> invoke-rc.d package <action>
> else
> /etc/init.d/package <action>
> fi
>

Hi,

I don't want to be a pest (given I'm not a developer or maintainer), but
I'm just curious - why the conditional?

AIUI invoke-rc.d is in sysvinit - which is an Essential package. Won't
the 'which' command always succeed?

TIA,

Dave.

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