On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Alexandre Ferrieux
<alexandre.ferri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, August 23, 2014 3:00:02 PM UTC+2, Brian wrote:
>> On Fri 22 Aug 2014 at 17:20:03 -0700, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:


>>> I have a Jessie-based system, which up to the last upgrade used
>>> sysvinit of course, and where I had added sysv-rc-conf, and was
>>> happily juggling with a few runlevels.
>>>
>>> But after an upgrade (still in Jessie), systemd rules. No problem
>>> about this, but what degree of compatibility should I expect ?
>>> Specifically, is there some automated mechanism that would:
>>
>>> - extract initdefault from inittab and do a "systemctl set-default
>>> runlevelX.target"
>>> - scan /etc/rcX.d and do the appropriate "systemctl enable" for all S
>>> scripts
>>
>> Systemd doesn't use /etc/inittab.
>
> Sure, but if the systemd packaged by Debian goes through the hassle of
> defining runlevelX.target, it might have made sense to carry the initdefault 
> along.

The "runlevelX.target" units exist upstream.


>>> If the answer is "no", why is sysv-rc-conf still tolerated under
>>> systemd?
>>
>> For backwards compatibilty?
>
> Well, it's a strange form of backwards compatibility. The net result is that 
> the
> upgrade instantly broke my system. I am not talking about switching from 
> wheezy
> to jessie, I was already in jessie.

How does "sysv-rc-conf" interact with systemd? Isn't it still
available in jessie for use with sysvinit (only)?


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