[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Stretch to Buster with sysvinit





On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 3:17 PM The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:

<snip>
>> If you want to keep sysvinit, here's the order of events:
>>
>> change sources from stretch to buster
>
> Fine.
>
>> apt update
>
> Splendid.
>
>> apt dist-upgrade
>
> Great.
>
>> apt install sysvinit-core
>
> What happens if this is not done?

Next time you reboot, you'll have systemd as init.

The Confusion behind this, is one reason why I am friendly to Devuan (https://devuan.org/), while still running some systems as Debian (with SystemD).  

To the Original Poster, I would only suggest to examine the Devuan Website, to see if it's an option.  (Note, however, that they are, as far as I know, behind Debian by one Release, with their "Ascii" Release matching Debian Stretch).

The dist-upgrade will have resulted in installing the systemd-sysv
package, which (despite its name) has nothing to do with sysvinit; it is
the package which sets systemd as the primary / active / default init
system.

Installing sysvinit-core will uninstall that package.

 Good luck!

Kenneth Parker

Reply to: