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Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Sat Sep 2 15:44:38 BST 2006


On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 16:25 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

> also sprach Scott James Remnant <scott at netsplit.com> [2006.09.02.1621 +0200]:
> > sysvutils contains the various bits from sysvinit that aren't
> > directly related to init itself, like pidof last, lastb, mesg
> > & killall5.
> 
> This makes sense, but I am not willing to see through this change in
> Debian right now. Someone else please.
> 
> Was sysvutils split off just for upstart?
> 
Yes, without doing that there was no way we could replace init properly.
It's only a split binary package, it still comes from the sysvinit
source.,

> > You could use sysvinit instead, but then you wouldn't be able to
> > install upstart as /sbin/init
> 
> Well, unless I user alternatives or a diversion...
> 
You could do those things too :)  Note you'll have to divert most of the
binaries out of the way (init, shutdown, halt, etc.)

> Is that the only limitation? Do I then need the -compat package at
> all?
> 
You'll still need the -compat package, as that contains the /etc/event.d
scripts to run the existing rc scripts!  You'll also need divert
runlevel and telinit so that the compat versions will be installed
instead.

Scott
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