Ideas for the upstart migration for /sbin/init in Debian

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Wed Sep 16 06:54:02 UTC 2009


Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-09-15 23:32 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>> Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>>> Another idea that was discussed on IRC was to change the sysvinit
>>> package to become a dummy package depending on something like
>>> upstart|sysvinit-legacy, and move all files from sysvinit to
>>> sysvinit-legacy.  For kfreebsd and hurd where upstart do not work, the
>>> dummy package would depend only on sysvinit-legacy for now.  This
>>> would hopefully make sure dist-upgrade change existing installations
>>> to upstart.
> 
> Is it possible to make sysvinit-legacy "Essential: yes" only on
> non-Linux architectures? 

That's possible by passing a -DEssential=yes to dpkg-gencontrol conditionally in
debian/rules.

Michael
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