[OE-core] why is "run-postinsts" considered a "development" recipe?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Burton, Ross wrote:

>
> On 26 July 2016 at 15:19, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>         i'm good with that, and one more (potentially idiotic) question
>       about run-postinsts. i note in the OE recipe file that it inherits
>       "update-rc.d", but i'm not sure why.
>
>         AIUI (and i could be totally off-base here), i thought systemd
>       needed update-rc.d only for backward compatibility for sysvinit-style
>       services, is that right?
>
>         so while run-postinsts is free to inherit update-rc.d, does that
>       have any value if one is not using any sysvinit-driven services? or am
>       i misunderstanding the fundamental functionality of update-rc.d?
>
> It inherits update-rcd and systemd so that it runs on both systemd
> and sysvinit systems.

  ok, so my initial assumption was correct ... its value lies solely
in interoperability with sysvinit components; if i have a pure systemd
build, it has no effect. gotcha.

rday

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