[OT] Re: Some ideas about the Debian Runlevel System
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:33:31AM -0500, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
>
> But I highly doubt I'll ever convince anybody to consider switching to a
> BSD style init system... I'd probably have an easier time getting
> Debian to switch to .rpms... I still hate our default init system, in
> any case.
>
> noah
>
Why not find out what software package provides the BSD style init and
package it for Debian? I expect this would prove very difficult at first
but I am sure you could get help to do so. Once packaged people would be
able to select which init system they would like to use. You may
consider contacting the Free and Net BSD developers working on porting
Debian to those kernels.
Hmmm.... Some random thoughts on the matter....
The existing init is sysvinit 2.84-2woody1, so you may have to setup a
Conflicts or something to make it work. Additionally I think there is an
init included in the base-system which you would have to consider as
well. The biggest problem would be converting the existing sysv style
symlinks into the equivilant for the BSD init. This would be further
complicated by whatever mechanism is currently used to update init.d
links when a package is installed. So ou would have to cature that in
some manner and add the appropriate info to your config file.
It doesn't look like a very small undertaking, but I think it could be
done.
Sorry, I think that went a bit off topic.
Good Luck,
Matthew McGuire
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