On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Ralf Corsepius (rc040203(a)freenet.de) said:
> > Perhaps it become clearer if we find such a package and discuss what
> > we'd like an upgrade to perform.
>
> E.g. customizing/fixing init priorities,
There are overrides for this in rawhide. See the latest chkconfig package.
> buggy init-scripts with local
> bug-fixes applied, ...
That could apply to *anything*, whether it be /usr/bin/find or
/etc/init.d/sshd.
Yes, ... if you want to drive this to extremes, one could argue
this to
be a missing feature in rpm.
Special-casing something just because it happens
to be shell seems misguided.
Whether this is special casing depends on your view
"/etc ... /etc/ ==
configuration" == no special casing.
Apart of this, a system is not unlikely not to boot up anymore or at
least not to work properly anymore when an update reverts a local bug
fix/customization.
Ralf