Re: Knoppix scripts without packages
Hi Ryan,
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 02:04:32PM -0700, Ryan Finnie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Klaus Knopper
> <debian-knoppix@knopper.net> wrote:
> >> > /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig
> >> > /etc/init.d/knoppix-startx
> >> > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45knoppix
> >> >
> >> > are not packaged, in order to avoid automatic upgrades and dependency
> >> > problems with the Debian standard system.
>
> When Debian switched to dependency based boot, it really hit me
> (Finnix) hard and made it a lot harder to manage. At that point I
> forked Debian's sysv-rc and modified it to run under /etc/finnix
> instead of /etc. So all Finnix-specific rc scripts and the rc system
> are in /etc/finnix/init.d/ with links in /etc/finnix/rc*.d/, and
> packaged in the finnix-scripts (available on packages.finnix.org), and
> don't interfere with the Debian rc system. I have this in
> /etc/inittab:
>
> l0:0:wait:/etc/finnix/init.d/finnix-halt
> l1:1:wait:/etc/finnix/init.d/rc 1
> l2:2:wait:/etc/finnix/init.d/rc 2
> l3:3:wait:/etc/finnix/init.d/rc 3
> l4:4:wait:/etc/finnix/init.d/rc 4
> l5:5:wait:/etc/finnix/init.d/rc 5
> l6:6:wait:/etc/finnix/init.d/finnix-reboot
>
> That way, /etc/rc*.d/ remains fully populated by Debian's systems, but
> does not impact Finnix booting. That may be an option for Knoppix in
> the future.
There are several ways to handle sysvinit modifications in Debian. For
me, it seemed easiest to just change /etc/inittab for just executing
/etc/init.d/{knoppix-autoconfig,knoppix-halt,knoppix-reboot} only, thus
avoiding all of Debians /etc/rc*.d files just like you did, but I don't
have a complete set of modified runlevel init scripts and instead, reuse
the existing ones for starting individual services from /etc/rc.local.
The /etc/inittab and my own scripts located directly in /etc/init.d also
seem to keep Debian from automatically migrating to dependency-based
booting.
> (FYI to others on the list: Finnix is not a remaster/fork of Knoppix,
> but does includes some code/structure that was forked from Klaus' code
> many years ago, so many of the concepts are similar.)
Knoppix frequently learns from other Debian derivatives, too. :-)
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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