Em Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:25:57 +0200 Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > "sysvinit only" -> "sysvinit + upstart" (using > > alternatives/diversions) > > No offense, but I wouldn't trust the alternatives system for something > sensible as /sbin/init. Please also remember that it's not the > /sbin/init binary alone, we'd have to provide alternatives for halt, > shutdown, runlevel, reboot, poweroff and telinit. They would need to > be switched in one step, you can't mix e.g. init from upstart with > shutdown from sysvinit. This approach is a no-go imho.
The alternatives system is quite mature; it suffered from leaving dangling alternatives, but that was ages ago... The various commands you said could be provided as slaves to the /sbin/init alternative, which will make them be switched 'atomically'. See you, -- Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/ | http://kov.eti.br/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
