Re: [gentoo-dev] eselect init

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Dnia 2013-06-20, o godz. 15:56:09
William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:16:36PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote:
> > There is a new version of eselect-init in the systemd-love overlay to play with.
> > The new version saw the following major changes:
> > 
> > - the /sbin/init (aka the symlink that eselect-init handles) can be
> > changed to whatever one wants through make.conf [1] (this is a compile
> > time option, as documented in the eclass)
> 
> Why do we need to mess with /sbin/init at all?

Yes, we do because we don't want sysvinit randomly getting run
as fallback and messing with our systems.

> I like the suggestion that came up here on the list a while back, have
> the eselect init module install its own symlink at, say, /sbin/einit.
> You would still have to have the user edit their boot loader
> configuration file one time if they want to use this, but this makes it
> completely opt-in.

Plus hacking kernel sources to disable /sbin/init fallback.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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