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

[Jon Boden]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 04:55:06PM +0200, Jon Boden wrote:
> 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?

FWIW here's a patch to add busybox-init package based on Benda's suggestions (tested on ubuntuBSD with both sysv-rc and openrc).

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Jon Boden

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