Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 11:10:12 +0100
Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> wrote:
> On 06/04/17 10:58, Joe wrote:
> > I understood that an upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie would switch to
> > systemd as init. Even if that could be fixed afterwards, then there
> > will be server downtime and a manual procedure involved which will
> > not be part of the upgrade procedure and therefore will not have
> > been tested by the upgrade designers.
> >
> > Is that not the case?
>
> *By default*, an upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie will switch to systemd
> as init. However, per section 5.6 of the official published release
> notes for Debian 8 "jessie", APT pinning can be used to prevent this
> changeover:
>
> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#systemd-upgrade-default-init-system
>
> Quoted here for convenience:
>
> ==== BEGIN QUOTE ====
> As an example, to prevent systemd-sysv from being installed during
> the upgrade, you can create a file called
> /etc/apt/preferences.d/local-pin-init with the following contents:
>
> Package: systemd-sysv
> Pin: release o=Debian
> Pin-Priority: -1
> ==== END QUOTE ====
>
Thanks, I haven't gone through this yet, I've only got one server to
do, but it hasn't yet reached the top of the priorities list...
--
Joe
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