:: [DNG] Runlevels and dist-upgrades
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Autore: Hendrik Boom
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Vecchi argomenti: Re: [DNG] Runlevels (Was: Lead BusyBox developer on sysvinit)
Oggetto: [DNG] Runlevels and dist-upgrades
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 05:19:28PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 15:45 +0000, Simon Hobson wrote:
> > Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
> >
> > > The abstract definition of 'runlevel' is (as far as I'm aware of it):
> > > "Set of processes supposed to be running".
> >
> > That's what I understand it to be.
>
> FYI: You might be interested in the problem of defining runlevels. Here is a
> historical note (from the shepherd manual):
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/manual/html_node/Runlevel-evolution.html#R
> unlevel-evolution


That is an interesting few web pages. It's also relevant to figuring
out package dependencies during a dist-upgrade.

>
> Probably runlevels can be stated as a mathematical problem to solve. Has anybody
> seen such an attempt somewhere?
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