]] Harald Dunkel > On 07/16/14 23:22, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > So we are proposing the following scheme: > > > > a/ Upload a new "init" package. This is a new, essential package that > > will replace sysvinit as the package that ensures your system has an > > init system. We want to build this binary package from a package which > > is not tied to an actual init system, so we chose the > > init-system-helpers source package. Patch for init-system-helpers is > > available at [2]. > > > > b/ Demote sysvinit to Priority: optional and install an extra copy of > > the sysvinit binary into /lib/sysvinit/ so you can recover if your > > system fails to boot with systemd. This can be achieved by booting with > > init=/lib/sysvinit/init on the kernel command line. Patch for sysvinit > > is available at [3]. > > > > c/ Upload a new version of the init package which does the actual switch > > and changes the order via Pre-Depends: systemd-sysv | > > sysvinit-core. Diff[4] > > I am not sure if this matters, but it seems to me that this > procedure depends upon a specific sequence of package uploads > and system upgrades in the field.
It does not. We just don't want to leave the archive in a state where it's easy to end up with the necessary safeguards. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/874mygfng0....@aexonyam.err.no
