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Author: Adam Borowski
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Off-list - upgrading runit to 2.1.2-5 can hose your system
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 03:25:27PM +0200, Fred DC wrote:
> On 12/08/2016 13:43, Tom H wrote:
> >>From the changelog of 2.1.2-4:
> > New binary package 'runit-init', that provides /sbin/init replacement
> > out-of-box.
> >
> > I'd say that it's badly packaged. For sysvinit, there's
> >
> > - sysvinit, which provides "/lib/sysvinit/init" so you can boot using
> > sysvinit by adding "init=/lib/sysvinit/init" to the kernel cmdline
> >
> > - sysvinit-core, which provides "/sbin/init"
> >
>
> Thanks for this tip. BTW, sysvinit is a transitional package for people
> who are not so sure about systemd-init. So that will go away in not too
> distant future.


For the values of "future" of "Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:28:28 +0200".

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