Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:31:21PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:14:19 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> 
> > What I meant was, I rely on ls to remind me (or other sysadmins) that
> > the file is special and should not be edited willy-nilly.
> 
> > I don't want a well-meaning but misguided minion to 'taint' the
> > mercurial repo.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> > > However, if symlinks have stopped working, there was either a
> > > conscious design decision or you've found a new bug.
> 
> > Do you think I should bring this question to -dev, or file a bug?
> 
> I'd file a bug, then progress can be tracked. If it is a design decision,
> the bug will be closed soon enough.

All,

actually this is an issue which whas been around since the beginning of
openrc. We thought we had a fix, but the fix caused several regressions
and was reverted:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350910.

If you read that bug, the issue is pretty complex, because it relates to
the location and name of the conf.d file as well as the settings of
some of  openrc's environment variables.

I haven't looked at this issue in a while, but I can say that the fix is
far from trivial.

William

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