Bug#771825: release-notes: Update information on non-systemd Jessie upgrades and installations
On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 17:01 +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Thu 04 Dec 2014 at 12:02:27 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
>
> > + It is also a good idea to install
> > + <systemitem role="package"> sysvinit-core, sysvint and sysvinit-utils
> > + </systemitem> as the first packages when upgrading.
>
> What is gained by doing this? If pinning is used sysvinit-core is
> installed.
Are you sure? I'm not. Pinning is a help for apt and aptitude to resolve
which packages to install.
> If sysvinit-core is installed before a dist-upgrade is done
> why bother with pinning?
Other packages might install systemd-sysv by mistake? As was the case
with libpam-systemd before the Depends: of libpam-systemd was changed to
"systemd-shim | systemd-sysv"? Pinning helps you to avoid such mistakes.
> Aren't sysvint and sysvinit-utils already on the system and upgraded
> without doing anything special with them beforehand?
Not sure about this either. Are you?
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