On Saturday, February 01, 2014 19:14:21 Cameron Norman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > > I *like* systemd, and I would still be very unhappy > > if a routine aptitude upgrade (or even a dist-upgrade) of a system > > currently running sysvinit suddenly resulted in running systemd without > > some sort of critical debconf question or the like. > > In my mind, the package to change init systems would still be separate from > its respective init systems.
There's a work-in-progress tool starting to implement this, it currently works for switching between sysvinit and systemd, and will work with others later (assuming the package interdependencies can be worked out). $ apt-cache show init-select Package: init-select Version: 1.20140109 Installed-Size: 50 Maintainer: Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> Architecture: all Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, grub-coreboot | grub-efi-amd64 | grub-efi-i386 | grub-emu | grub-ieee1275 | grub-pc Suggests: systemd Description-en: init system selection tool init-select makes it easy to select among the available init systems (the first process initiated when the system starts). To select an init other than the default, please run the command 'dpkg-reconfigure init-select' after this package has been installed. Note that this will change the init used for all of the available Linux kernel selections in the bootloader menu. . init-select currently only supports the grub bootloader, but this will be expanded to lilo and other bootloaders in the future. This is working for me so far. Doesn't yet work for upstart or openrc, but supporting them is in the TODO list. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
