On Tue, 04 Jul 2017, David Griffith wrote: > On July 3, 2017 1:44:30 PM PDT, Martin Read <zen75...@zen.co.uk> wrote: > >On 03/07/17 20:42, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > >> Is there a pure Debian alternative? > > > >There is an alternative init daemon, in the form of sysvinit (install > >the package "sysvinit-core" to use this as your init daemon), and there > >are several solutions for service management. > > > > It would be nice to have an install-time option for selecting the desired > init.
It already exists: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00097.html « You can just append: preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" to the installer command line. Or you can roll your own install media with its own syslinux.cfg which adds that or something more complicated in a preseed file. You don't need to fork the installer, or submit any patches upstream. If you want something more complicated, like not installing systemd at all, you'll have to pass --include and --exclude options to debootstrap using the base-installer/includes and base-installer/excludes preseed options; something like: base-installer/includes=sysvinit-core base-installer/excludes=systemd-sysv but that's totally untested. » -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54
