Re: [gpsd-dev] New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO

[Frank Nicholas]

On May 9, 2016, at 7:23 PM, Oliver Jowett <address@hidden> wrote:

init.d scripts are usually conffiles so only get removed on purge, not on simple package removal. Traditionally the first thing they do is test that the corresponding binary is actually

Really?  Init.d scripts are configured files and not part of the “package?  That’s surprising to me, and doesn’t seem quite right.

Eric’s How To has the purge option (apt-get -y remove --purge ntp).  So this should take care of the init.d scripts.  Is there anything else that should be added to make sure all remnants of the Debian NTP is gone?

"update-rc.d foo disable" or "systemctl mask foo" are probably the canonical ways to disable the package scripts.

Would these work or be needed if “purge” was used?

Thanks,

Frank