On Thu, 15.07.10 17:41, Alexander Boström (abo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > tor 2010-07-15 klockan 16:59 +0200 skrev Lennart Poettering: > > > If I added inittab parsing support even when keeping "native breaks > > legacy" around, then inittab would matter only if the default.target > > symlink doesn't exist. > > Yeah, when saying "keep compat" you have to define exactly how to do > that, which isn't always easy. I myself have written kickstart scripts > that would need to be changed to deal with this but it's really rather > trivial and I don't have any good alternative suggestion. > > But I do think the %postinstall script, if it's an install and not an > update, should check the contents of inittab and set the symlink > accordingly. Otherwise an upgrade to a new release might make the system > start X when it didn't do that before, which would be bad. That is a good suggestion. To make sure that the symlinks are never overwritten by rpm we need to install them manually in %post anyway, and quickly checking the old inittab for a good default choice is a very good idea. /me adds this to his todo list. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
