On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 12:46:06PM -0700, disparage.solvency678@??? wrote:
> Is it possible to switch an existing daedalus system from sysvinit to
> runit as PID 1? Is is actually documented (I guess "supported" would
> be too much to ask)?

Sorry I don't have a proven recipe from bash history - I'm not sure I've
actually converted a Devuan setup let alone an Dadalus one specifically
(I always install Devuan with runit directly).

However, I have converted Debian systems from sysvinit to runit with no
problem. I think for Daedalus-equivalent, it is sufficient to 'apt-get
install runit-init' but from Excalibur I think you need to add the
options '--allow-remove-essential sysvinit-core-'.

The runit-services package is strongly recommended.

I think old recommendations used to suggest some intermediate step of
installing plain 'runit' first. I'm not sure that is necessary.

I've no reason to suppose this isn't "supported" behaviour on Devuan!