Re: All the syslogs

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:59:58PM +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
> > OK, than i'll try to create an u-a setting for all the syslogs (btw: we
> > have not three but four different ones, there's sysklogd too).
> > 
> > Has anyone combined update-alternatives and update-rc.d for initscripts
> > before? I'm afraid there are some pitfalls in the naming of the initscript
> > itself and the symlinks.
> 
> I made some first tests and they confirmed my fears. :(
> 
> The recipes look like this:
> 
> -------------------->snip<---------------------------
> inherit autotools update-rc.d
> 
> do_install_append() {
>         ...
>         install -m 755 ${WORKDIR}/initscript ${D}/${sysconfdir}/init.d/syslog.${PN}
> }
> 
> pkg_postinst_${PN} () {
>     update-alternatives --install ${sysconfdir}/init.d/syslog syslog-init syslog.${PN} 300
> }
> 
> pkg_prerm_${PN} () {
>     update-alternatives --remove syslog-init syslog.${PN}
> }
> 
> INITSCRIPT_NAME = "syslog"
> -------------------->snip<---------------------------
> 
> When opkg installs the packages it wants to run update-rc.d *before*
> update-alternatives. This results in an "file does not exist" error. :(
> 
>   Installing rsyslog (5.5.4-r1.0.5) to root...
>   Installing busybox-syslog (1.13.2-r24.1.5) to root...
>   Configuring rsyslog
>   update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/syslog: file does not exist
>   update-alternatives: Linking //etc/init.d/syslog to syslog.rsyslog
> Any suggestions?

If there is only one u-a file in recipe you can try
inherit update-alternatives to see if it will generate postinst commands
in right order.

Or in worse case, move update-rc.d logic to your postinst scripts after
setting u-a links.

Regards,

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