Re: about sysvinit
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 03:30:51PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > the hurdinit pkg would be the dummy one used now, or maybe an special
> > init for the system, i don't kow.
You made me thinking. The Hurd has an init system (it's /hurd/init, and it
starts /libexec/rc at run time, which in turn starts the servers in the
Debian packages).
Depending on _why_ the packages depend on sysvinit, it might be enough to
depend on sysvinit only on Debian GNU/Linux systems. In this case, the
packages have to be changed to add sysvinit to the dependencies by the
dpkg-substvars mechanism in debian/rules depending on the architecture they
are built for.
But the reason why they depend on sysvinit might be many, and I don't have
an overview of what the common reasons are. That I ported sysvinit at all
was a kludge for Debian GNU/Hurd by itself: The Hurd doesn't really need it.
Thanks,
Marcus
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