Package: insserv
Version: 1.26.0-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

When specifying --path to an alternative /etc/init.d location insserv ignores this path for writing the Makefile-style dependency files.

For example:

/usr/sbin/insserv --path /home/a/zz/etc/init.d \
--override /home/a/zz/etc/insserv/overrides/ \
--config /home/a/zz/etc/insserv.conf \
--verbose

Gives:

insserv: warning: could not find all dependencies for $portmap
insserv: fopen(/etc/init.d/.depend.boot): Permission denied

I have given this severity 'minor' because I imagine chroot is normally used for this sort of requirement. That said, I expect this is reasonable and not too hard to fix.

(BTW: the bootchart2 package mentioned in Suggests below is not in the archive.)

Thanks,

Andrew


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.37+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages insserv depends on:
ii libc6 2.41-11

insserv recommends no packages.

Versions of packages insserv suggests:
pn bootchart2 <none>

-- no debconf information

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Andrew,

On Sun, Aug 03, 2025 at 09:48:43AM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:

Package: insserv
Version: 1.26.0-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

When specifying --path to an alternative /etc/init.d location insserv ignores this path for writing the Makefile-style dependency files.

If I have understood what you are trying to do, I think you need to specify --insserv-dir as well.

Mark

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