clean up unmodified /etc/rc.local on upgrade
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| systemd (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Dimitri John Ledkov | ||
| ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
If a user's system was installed before zesty, the initscripts package was installed as part of the base system, and a stub /etc/rc.local was created on install.
rc.local is very much a legacy interface (it was legacy under Debian's sysvinit, so it's three generations of legacy); and if /etc/rc.local is present and executable, systemd runs an additional unit, rc-local.service, which is After=network-
/lib/systemd/
Since the initscripts package no longer exists in zesty and later, and this package should preferably be removed on upgrade, we can't put maintainer script code in this package to manage the removal of /etc/rc.local.
Adding this to any other system package would be a kludge.
I think this belongs as a quirk on upgrade, to remove the /etc/rc.local left behind by initscripts if it is unmodified.
Here is the md5sum of the stock file, which has remained consistent from (at least) lucid through xenial:
$ md5sum /etc/rc.local
10fd9f051accb6f
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Changed in systemd (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| assignee: | nobody → Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) |
| milestone: | none → ubuntu-17.09 |
| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Won't Fix |
| Changed in systemd (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
| tags: | added: id-59b965e3325c6b38afd5122b |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in systemd (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Dimitri intends to handle this in systemd postinst instead.