Hi Jon, Very interesting patch!
A package busybox-init, similar to busybox-syslogd, makes more sense to me. It can be made openrc-neutral. The Debian openrc package is a drop-in replacement to sysv-rc, the latter provides /etc/init.d/rc and /etc/init.d/rcS. OpenRC follows this convention so that /etc/inittab (of sysvinit) is not needed to be updated. It is also desirable to run busybox-init + sysv-rc or busybox-init + file-rc. It can be achieved if the /etc/inittab of busybox-init is written as that in the appendix. @debian-boot team, do you think such a busybox-init package feasible? If so I am going to reassign this bug to src:busybox. Yours, Benda Appendix: busybox-inittab ::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS ::wait:/etc/init.d/rc 2 ::shutdown:/etc/init.d/rc 0 # What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed. ::ctrlaltdel:/etc/init.d/rc 6 # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels. # ::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1 ::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2 ::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty3 ::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty4 ::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty5 ::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal) # #::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 #::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 # Example how to put a getty on a modem line. # #::respawn:/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 57600 ttyS3
