[PKG-OpenRC-Debian] Bug#827733: Better manage /sbin/init by busybox

[Jon Boden]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 10:37:41PM +0900, Benda Xu wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> Very interesting patch!
> 
> A package busybox-init, similar to busybox-syslogd, makes more sense to
> me.  It can be made openrc-neutral.
> 
> The Debian openrc package is a drop-in replacement to sysv-rc, the
> latter provides /etc/init.d/rc and /etc/init.d/rcS.  OpenRC follows this
> convention so that /etc/inittab (of sysvinit) is not needed to be
> updated.
> 
> It is also desirable to run busybox-init + sysv-rc or busybox-init +
> file-rc.  It can be achieved if the /etc/inittab of busybox-init is
> written as that in the appendix.
> 
> 
> @debian-boot team, do you think such a busybox-init package feasible?  If
> so I am going to reassign this bug to src:busybox.

Fine by me! debian-boot, do you want a new patch based on Benda's inittab?

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