Bug 497740 – New feature: remove a service from all runlevels

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Benda Xu 2014-01-10 23:07:54 UTC]

This feature comes from Debian, too, which calls for a single command to remove a service from all runlevels reliably, as

# update-rc.d <svc> [-f] remove

It used when a package changes <svc> to, say, <svc0> and needs a cleanup of the old symlinks.


A similar rc-update syntax could be desinged as

rc-update del <svc> -a

FYI: the present OpenRC treats "rc-update del <svc>" as removing <svc> from the current runlevel.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Benda Xu 2014-01-12 07:34:32 UTC]

We have an inconsistency in the CLI,

"rc-update show" is for ALL runlevels, while
"rc-update add/del <svc>" is only for the CURRENT runlevel.

[Comment 2 Benda Xu 2014-01-13 06:56:55 UTC]

Created attachment 367770 [details, diff]
operate-all-runlevels.patch

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2014-01-13 17:48:16 UTC]

This is fixed in commit abadaa0 and will be included in OpenRC-0.13.

[Comment 4 Benda Xu 2014-01-14 04:39:35 UTC]

Thanks William. I appreciate for your refinement of the patch.