Re: "djbdns" under "runit" (Debian)?

[mike@mikebell.org]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 02:57:37AM +0200, Gilles wrote:
> Wouldn't it be sufficient to just add "runit" as an alternative to
> "daemontools" in the dependency list?

Not unless the symlinks came with it. runit programs will behave
differently when called using daemontools names. One could easily
however have a "legacy-free" runit and a separate package that provided
"daemontools" and the symlinks.

> What you suggest enables using the daemontools names for calling the 
> runit programs (in order to "provide" a daemontools interface). [Am I 
> correct?]

See above.

> I just want to use runit's names for calling runit's programs. [Unless
> the djbdns software somehow relies on the actual supervision software
> used (?).]

You can also just change the scripts, but then tinydns-conf and the like
don't work and you need to do a little manual vi work after.

> What do you mean by "manually insert daemontools as installed"?
> Could you please be more explicit?

Basically shut debian up by lying to it and telling it that daemontools
is installed. There's probably a mechanism for doing it properly, but I
just use vi to tell it that daemontools is installed and has no files.