FS#12257 - pacman: initscripts-genslpash should be asked to be replaced by initscripts

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Zbyszek Sokołowski (corvin) - Thursday, 27 November 2008, 09:39 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 04 December 2008, 13:49 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:


Additional info:

pacman 3.2.1-1

when command pacman -Suy is invoked and genplash-initscripts are installed in system, there should be request to change those old scripts to initscripts 2008.09-2, now there is no even warning and after successful upgrade system behaves unpredictably, for eg/. script /etc/start-udev is no longer available and it's expected to be by genplash-initscripts

moreover there should be verbose info on arch web pages that so important changes to distro have been done



* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Thursday, 04 December 2008, 13:49 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 27 November 2008, 10:00 GMT
AFAIK gensplash-initscripts was never an official package. If you decide to replace core system parts with third party packages, you're on your own when things break.
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Thursday, 27 November 2008, 10:05 GMT
This seems to be a community package.Maybe we should just remove it from the repos to avoid any confusion.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 27 November 2008, 12:20 GMT
AFAIK, initscripts-splash is a community package, not gensplash-initscripts.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Thursday, 04 December 2008, 13:49 GMT
I'm missing the actual bug here, I feel like. If gensplash-initscripts hasn't kept up to date with necessary changes, then that is the package's problem, not Arch's or pacman's problem. It could easily have done versioned deps.

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