initscripts and how many patches to carry

[Sami Dalouche]

Hi,

concerning initscripts.
It has been recently discussed on debian mailing list whether to accept a patch
that allows parallel launch of init scripts with the same runlevel.

Of course, as usual, debian won't accept this patch officially before 2 or 3
years because it is not Debian-policy correct or some obscure reasons.

However, would Ubuntu be willing to accept such a patch ? I mean, current
startup time is pretty slow, and this could potentially help on powerful
machines.

BTW, is there any plan on having ifup of network interfaces NOT blocking
startup, but just do as, let's say windows, let do the dhcp in the background ?

Regards,
Sami Dalouche

Quoting Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com>:

> On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:29:48PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > There's a bug report (http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/1580) which complains
> > basically that many of our /etc/init.d scripts use `echo ...' rather
> > than log_begin_msg etc.  This is of course suboptimal.
> >
> > However, are we really intending to patch /all/ of our init scripts in
> > main to fix this ?  Wouldn't it be better to offer relevant patches to
> > Debian and provide this slight user experience improvement on a
> > best-effort basis in the meantime ?
>
> That is what we do.  We patch everything in the default installations, of
> course, and on a best-effort basis beyond that.  All of the patches, as
> always, are offered to Debian via Scott's patch-o-matic.
>
> Debian has recently begun to adopt some of these patches.
>
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>  - mdz
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