[Bug 690640] Re: dh_installinit upstart support start a job in postinst script regardless of previous status

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 09:15:25PM -0000, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Alright, I see where we do need this information encoded.

> The current recommendation for natty is to add the word 'manual' to the
> job configuration file to disable it. For 10.10 and earlier, commenting
> out the start on line is the preferred method, or moving the file
> somewhere else.

> What if we added

> if grep -q '^\s*start\s*on' /etc/init/${JOB}.conf && ! grep -q '^\s*manual' /etc/init/${JOB}.conf ; then
>   $ACTION $JOB
> fi

> To upstart-job?

> Since we already have to do a --no-start for special case event based
> tasks, this would reliably catch the known ways to disable upstart jobs,
> and otherwise doesn't change the behavior.

Not very elegant to have upstart-job parsing the job files manually.  If
upstart now knows about jobs that should only be started manually (this new
'manual' keyword), could we not instead extend the control interface so that
/sbin/start can take a new option ('--system'?  '--maintainer-script'?) that
tells upstart to skip the operation for 'manual' jobs?

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Title:
  dh_installinit upstart support start a job in postinst script
  regardless of previous status