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Mathieu Roy |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of rc-sysinit - savannah.gnu.org |
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06 Sep 2003 09:39:39 +0200 |
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Please do not mail me with HTML-only.
I think that you can resubmit your project, despite the fact that I
think you'd better try to include your work upstream (in Mandrake
IICR).
Regards,
address@hidden a tapoté :
> Thank you for the information on trying to find the author of rc.sysinit.
> <br>
> However, I think you need to understand, I am asking for your help not
> because I haven\'t looked, but because I have already looked in all the
> standard places.
> <br>
> rc.sysinit is a bash script that resides in /etc/rc.d along w/ all the other
> scripts that make up the package called initscripts.
> <br>
> However, there are many variants and flavors and initscripts tend to be
> localized to a single distribution for the most part.
> <br>
> Mandrake has one set, RedHat has another, and so on.
> <br>
> rc.sysinit is not standardized across distributions except in HOW it does
> things. Each distro is free to change what it would like.
> <br>
> My patch to rc.sysinit clearly shows how that needs to be changed to handle
> fsck correctly and modularly.
> <br>
> You could easily pull out the parts I have and put it into the correct distro.
> <br>
> Part of what I was hoping to do w/ the project is to collect all the variants
> and maintain them as a single entity so that everyone could benefit.
> <br>
> But the problem remains, I still cannot find the single source of truth for
> rc.sysinit.
> <br>
> It\'s not even strictly POSIX. It\'s just a script for initilization that
> everyone seems to shared variants of and they all seem to have the same
> problem.
> <br>
> Any thoughts????
> <br>
> Shamim
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