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Re: Moving rc.d scripts to base.tgz



On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Matthew Mondor
<mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:34:02 +0100
> Julio Merino <jmmv%julipedia.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>> (If we had a "system updater" script, we'd just put all this logic into it.)
>
> postinstall, etcupdate couldn't do this?

Unfortunately not; they are only run *after* the sets are unpacked.
If we moved the files from etc.tgz to base.tgz without changing their
path, you'd have already lost your custom modifications before you
even run etcupdate or postinstall.

-- 
Julio Merino / @jmmv


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