Re: Stretch to Buster with sysvinit
On Tue 17 Sep 2019 at 09:13:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:11:33PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > What causes systemd-sysv to be installed?
>
> wooledg:~$ aptitude why systemd-sysv
> i udev Depends dpkg (>= 1.19.3) | systemd-sysv
>
> OK... I'll admit, I do not quite understand that dependency. But
> what I really need to do is check this on a jessie system, which
> is where systemd became the default (even when upgrading from wheezy).
>
> root@<jessie>:~# aptitude why systemd-sysv
> i init PreDepends systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart
>
> That makes a lot more sense to me.
Upgrades from wheezy to jessie did not change the init system because
libpame-systemd had the dependency
systemd-shim (>= 8-2) | systemd-sysv
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Brian.
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