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Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit



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Am Samstag, 28. Juni 2003 04:09 schrieb Junichi Uekawa:
> 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?

I had the same problem in my chroots. This was fixed with the latest 
upload of sysvinit. Now it does the following:

init u || true

With this postinst doesnt fail.


Michael
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