Hello everybody,
When I tried to upgrade the packages on my PC to the ones from Devuan
jessie repository just now, the following ones got held back due to my
pinning preference.
root@hp8530w:~# dpkg --list accountsservice acpi-fakekey initscripts
libaccountsservice0 sysvinit sysvinit-utils util-linux
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=========================================-=========================-=========================-========================================================================================
ii accountsservice 0.6.21-8 amd64
query and manipulate user account information
ii acpi-fakekey 0.140-5+deb7u3 amd64
tool to generate fake key events
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 amd64
scripts for initializing and shutting down the system
ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.21-8
amd64 query and manipulate user account information
- shared libraries
ii sysvinit 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 amd64
System-V-like init utilities
ii sysvinit-utils 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 amd64
System-V-like utilities
ii util-linux 2.25.2-4.1+devuan1 amd64
Miscellaneous system utilities
root@hp8530w:~#
As above, I am still using sysvinit from Debian wheezy. And I held
util-linux to the above version. As far as I remember, I got problems
using util-linux higher than that version. I forgot the exact the problems.
What I am wondering is that, why Devuan is using sysvinit-core instead
of sysvinit? Could we not just bring forward sysvinit from Debian wheezy
for Devuan jessie? As far as I understood, sysvinit-core was introduced
as the workaround to use SysV init in Debian jessie instead of the
default init (which name should not be mentioned). If my understanding
is wrong, is that because of the changes on util-linux? If not, what are
technical reasons behind that, a part from staying very close to Debian
jessie?
Cheers,
Anto
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