Index: /trunk/packages/invirt-base/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- /trunk/packages/invirt-base/debian/changelog	(revision 1928)
+++ /trunk/packages/invirt-base/debian/changelog	(revision 1929)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
   * run_parts_list: fix unclear docstring
-  * config-init.sh: degrade to non-bash gracefully
-
- -- Greg Price <price@mit.edu>  Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:00:07 -0500
+  * config-init.sh: degrade to non-bash gracefully, document better
+
+ -- Greg Price <price@mit.edu>  Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:46:33 -0500
 
 invirt-base (0.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
Index: /trunk/packages/invirt-base/files/lib/init/config-init.sh
===================================================================
--- /trunk/packages/invirt-base/files/lib/init/config-init.sh	(revision 1928)
+++ /trunk/packages/invirt-base/files/lib/init/config-init.sh	(revision 1929)
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 # For a package which only configures another, "parent" package.
 #
-# Global variable PARENTPACKAGE names parent; unset for no parent,
-# array for (zero or one or) many parents.
+# Usage:
+#   PACKAGE=short-name
+#   GEN_FILES=(files to generate)
+#   PARENTPACKAGE=(parent-package another-parent-package)
+#   . /lib/init/config-init.sh
+#   config_init "$1"
 #
-# Global variable PACKAGE names this package, for log message.
+# PACKAGE       - name to appear in log message
+# GEN_FILES     - files to be generated with gen-files.sh
+# PARENTPACKAGE - packages to receive start, etc, commands passed through
 #
-# If BASH_VERSION is null or unset, accepts only one parent in
-# PARENTPACKAGE, or empty for zero.
+# Global variables GEN_FILES, PARENTPACKAGE may be unset for zero
+# values, or scalars for one.  If run under sh, they cannot be arrays.
 
 . /lib/init/vars.sh