vt2-6 still not available with base system

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Fri Dec 12 16:52:12 GMT 2014


Simon McVittie, le Fri 12 Dec 2014 16:18:13 +0000, a écrit :
> On 12/12/14 15:26, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Since apparently Conditions can't be used on targets, I came up with a
> > slightly different idea, using a service, which triggers the start of
> > getty on tty2-6 in absence of /usr/bin/dbus-daemon.
> 
> Any reason not to prefer "Wants=getty at tty2.service ...
> getty at tty6.service" and "ExecStart=/bin/true"?
> 
> > The advantage of that static-getty.service compared to enabling getty on
> > tty2-6 is, that we can easily drop that again in jessie+X once we have
> > kdbus.
> 
> I understand that advantage over Samuel's proposal, but if I was the
> systemd maintainer, I'd be very tempted to drop the Condition and run
> all six gettys unconditionally, preserving traditional functionality.

And fixing #760916 along the way.

Samuel




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