<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 July 2016 at 15:19, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca" target="_blank">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":38l" class="a3s aXjCH m15627962c5aa2b6e"> i'm good with that, and one more (potentially idiotic) question<br>
about run-postinsts. i note in the OE recipe file that it inherits<br>
"update-rc.d", but i'm not sure why.<br>
<br>
AIUI (and i could be totally off-base here), i thought systemd<br>
needed update-rc.d only for backward compatibility for sysvinit-style<br>
services, is that right?<br>
<br>
so while run-postinsts is free to inherit update-rc.d, does that<br>
have any value if one is not using any sysvinit-driven services? or am<br>
i misunderstanding the fundamental functionality of update-rc.d?</div></blockquote></div><br>It inherits update-rcd and systemd so that it runs on both systemd and sysvinit systems.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>