Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 06:55:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 11:48:30 -0500
> William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:41:06AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:55:24AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > > > Openrc is small, but the wrapper really needs to know which is which and 
> > > > worst case switch inittab.
> > > 
> > > Please explain why this wrapper would need to switch inittab. Inittab is
> > > only used by sysvinit and has no uses in any other init system.
> > 
> > Ok, sorry, I was wrong in my previous msg, now I see that bb-init has
> > its own inittab with a different format.
> > 
> > How about patching bb-init so that it can handle a sysvinit inittab?
> 
> Er, isn't that too far to diverge from upstream? If we're to patch
> something, I'd rather patch it to use a different path.

From what I just read, the difference is that busybox init ignores the
runlevels specified in sysvinit inittab.

I guess it isn't an error for the runlevels to be there, it just doesn't
do anything with them.

Luca,

If that's the only difference, do we really need to modify the inittab
at all?

William


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