Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: eselect init

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El lun, 03-06-2013 a las 00:35 +0200, Luca Barbato escribió:
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> To not make this a waste of time here a summary of the whole thing:
> 
> - eselect init will be opt-in for the time being, people can be left on
> their own tools if the want it
> - the default init will stay sysvinit. Discussion ongoing if is better
> to have it installed in a secondary fallback path is open (e.g. /bin/init).
> - I still need to send patches to busybox and sysvinit upstream to add a
> command line switch to locate the inittab.
> - people wanting to switch init or enable/disable init addons using
> eselect init might have to refer to /sbin/einit or such custom path
> (assuming we fail to come to an agreement regarding /bin/init)
> 
> The wrapper in /sbin/init is mostly needed to get to the point of a
> clean reboot.
> 
> The first time you boot on a new system it is executed picking the new
> init and just that.
> 
> For addons such as bootchart2 and e4rat it would do slightly more.
> 
> Assuming upstream doesn't accept custom paths for the inittab, for my
> specific usecase I might bake something that would remount r/w and pivot
> the inittabs.
> 
> Anybody willing to do something more extreme could even consider having
> /sbin/init as a symlink and have the boot-time configuration switch the
> symlink, thus making the whole script run just a single boot per switch.
> 
> Not necessary but surely feasible.
> 
> lu
> 
> 

Thanks for the summary :)