Brian Potkin, le Tue 09 Sep 2014 15:26:16 +0100, a écrit : > On Tue 09 Sep 2014 at 13:37:50 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > On a wheezy system, I had a serial console configured in /etc/inittab, > > used as a secondary work terminal (i.e. no console=ttyS0 on the kernel > > command line). After an upgrade to Jessie, logind doesn't start a getty > > on ttyS0. > > Is > > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console.html > > any use?
Sure, but that's not what I call a seamless upgrade. At least simple cases like this should be handled by the upgrade. > > On a freshly installed Jessie system, /etc/inittab still gets installed, > > but has no effect. That will be very surprising to admins. > > The init (1.20) package for d-i's beta-1 has > > Pre-Depends: sysvinit-core | systemd-sysv | upstart > > sysvinit-core contains inittab, > > init (1.21) has > > Pre-Depends: systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart > > Admins may be surprised that /etc/inittab is absent but should rapidly > catch on it is not used with systemd. Ok, if /etc/inittab will not get installed on fresh Jessie installs, admins will realize things are not being configured there any more. It is however still worrying for upgraded systems that /etc/inittab will now be meaningless. That deserves a NEWS item. Samuel _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
