Re: The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2
On 10/22/2014 11:39 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> You can't create a trigger monitoring /etc/inittab because it's not
> packaged:
> $ LANG=C dpkg -S /etc/inittab
> dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/inittab
>
> And you can't use it on another file provided by sysvinit-core because
> you have no guarantee that the file trigger will be executed after
> the execution of the postinst of sysvinit-core.
>
> Triggers could be part of the solution that said, you could
> use a named triggers that is activated by sysvinit-core's postinst
> after the installation of the inittab.
Isn't that just a hack to work around deficits in sysvinit? If sysvinit
was to support inittab snippets in {/lib,/etc}/inittab.d (or the a bit
more verbose /etc/sysvinit/inittab.d), this should just work as with
other init systems.
Ansgar
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