debootstrapping and sysvinit

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hi,

I've received several reports that debootstrap of sid has not been
possible recently due to sysvinit.

I guess the problem is that sysvinit related postinst 
scripts are calling 'init' inside chroot, which fails,
failing the whole installation process.


The possible alternatives seem to be:

1. hack debootstrap to work around it
2. hack sysvinit to work around it
3. hack debootstrap/sysvinit so that sysvinit will know that postinst is running inside chroot and not try to run 'init' directly.


But I'm not quite confident which way to go.

The goal is to make Debian installable. Comments?


regards,
	junichi