Bug#673207: /etc/default/rcS is perhaps a better place for FANCYTTY variable

Le 21.05.2012 13:47, Roger Leigh a écrit :
> I'm not sure what you mean here.  Do you plan to keep the definition
> in two places (for backward compatibility?)?  Which would be the
> "preferred" location, i.e. which would take priority over the other?

Given that /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh is a documented interface supposed
to be a full-fledged shell script and that FANCYTTY is a single shell
variable, I would rather opt for it to be in a simpler file such as
/e/d/rcS.

Then if people want to do funky stuff like conditional setting in
/e/lsb-base-logging.sh, free to them. This file is not a conffile of
lsb-base nor of any package AFAIK and is usually not present.

>> ... with some maintainer script code in lsb-base and/or sysvinit to copy
>> an existing value of FANCYTTY from /e/lsb-base-logging.sh to /e/d/rcS .
> 
> Is this just on upgrade e.g. in the maintainer scripts?  To be run just
> once to migrate the setting?  Or for all changes?

Hmm; now that I think of it, it would be possible to simply have
/etc/default/rcS ship an empty (or even commented) FANCYTTY= definition
and let /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh untouched: if an admin added a FANCYTTY
definition to his /e/lsb-base-logging.sh, then it would simply continue
to work; if he hasn't too and future users would be pointed at /e/d/rcS.
Nice.

Cheers,

OdyX

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