Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 06:36:37AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Pretty sure it's either dbus(-{daemon,launch}) or systemd-udev. Yes I think you are right, I must have misread the line in ps somehow. Please stop posting random rants on debian-boot@. Fair enough. -- Len Sorensen -- To

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
[sent again - to proper address this time] [NB! This post sent to debian-boot - please follow up there] Quoting Erich Schubert (2014-11-23 09:50:12) 1. There is a wide consensus that Debian continues to allow other init systems. 2. The installer (currently) does install systemd. 3. The

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk (2014-11-23): Quoting Erich Schubert (2014-11-23 09:50:12) 1. There is a wide consensus that Debian continues to allow other init systems. 2. The installer (currently) does install systemd. 3. The installer CAN be used to install sysvinit via preseeding

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Jonas Smedegaard dixit: 3. The installer CAN be used to install sysvinit via preseeding (and admins should know how to use preseeding to install systems...) […] script late in the install process to replace init-related packages already installed by debian-installer. Indeed. You can also just

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Cyril Brulebois dixit: bad, because we're not going to change debootstrap, especially not at this late stage of the release cycle, to behave differently depending on the target distribution. The current script covers all suites from This is not necessary. Well, not at first. The changes to

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-23 13:13:05) Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk (2014-11-23): Quoting Erich Schubert (2014-11-23 09:50:12) 1. There is a wide consensus that Debian continues to allow other init systems. 2. The installer (currently) does install systemd. 3. The installer CAN be

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:02:57PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-23 13:13:05) Well, I'm really unsure what you're calling inaccurate in the third point. It is that preseeding is the mechanism used - but I may indeed be wrong: I assumed the term

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.de (2014-11-23): Cyril Brulebois dixit: bad, because we're not going to change debootstrap, especially not at this late stage of the release cycle, to behave differently depending on the target distribution. The current script covers all suites from This is not

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk (2014-11-23): If you're unhappy about the initial systemd installation, that's too bad, because we're not going to change debootstrap, especially not at this late stage of the release cycle, to behave differently depending on the target distribution. The

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Wouter Verhelst (2014-11-23 14:15:27) On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:02:57PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-23 13:13:05) Well, I'm really unsure what you're calling inaccurate in the third point. It is that preseeding is the mechanism used - but I may

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-23 14:31:00) Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk (2014-11-23): If you're unhappy about the initial systemd installation, that's too bad, because we're not going to change debootstrap, especially not at this late stage of the release cycle, to behave differently

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk (2014-11-23): Use of a root shell can turn a Debian system into a non-Debian system (by messing with the system in ways not following our defined rules). Blame is on the user for doing so. Typos are unsupported. Use of declarative hints should make it hard

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Holger Levsen
...just a small addition... On Sonntag, 23. November 2014, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Yes, you seem to have misunderstood me, because I did write this instead: So please use the available mechanisms to “avoid” systemd if you “need” doing so, and move on? and moving on could perfectly

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Philip Hands
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-23 14:31:00) Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk (2014-11-23): If you're unhappy about the initial systemd installation, that's too bad, because we're not going to change debootstrap, especially not at this late stage of

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:36:42PM +, Philip Hands wrote: Ah, oh well then. If one starts preseeding many of the internal bits of d-i, one can do pretty much anything you like (and loads of things you don't like ;-) ). If you're worried about recomending such things, I'd say that the

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sonntag, 23. November 2014, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Perhaps it is time someone who actually knows how to make it do the right thing to document it officially. Debian has agreed via the tech-ctte and via the recent GR that installing systemd by default on new installations *is* the *right

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 20:36:42 +, Philip Hands wrote: If you want a way to do a non-shell based preseed, you _may_ be able to get away with some combination of these: =-=-=-=- Template: base-installer/includes Type: string Description: for internal use; can be preseeded Packages to

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 22:43:53 +, Brian Potkin wrote: I think needs fixing for this to work. ^ #668001 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:37:41PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Debian has agreed via the tech-ctte and via the recent GR that installing systemd by default on new installations *is* the *right thing*. And jessie is frozen. Since ages ;-) A few weeks is hardly ages in the Debian release cycle

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Holger Levsen
On Montag, 24. November 2014, Lennart Sorensen wrote: So far preseed has been mentioned, although without any details on exactly what would be needed. the last time this was mentioned in this very thread was less than 12h ago. *plonk* signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:28:32AM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: the last time this was mentioned in this very thread was less than 12h ago. Oh the link to a comment in a bug report happens to contain something useful. I will agree that it was indirectly mentioned then. -- Len Sorensen -- To

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Phil, On Sonntag, 23. November 2014, Philip Hands wrote: Then again, I've used d-i as a presentation tool[1] -- I'm clearly deranged. [1] http://hands.com/d-i/lenny/classes/ukuug06/early_script nice! I was looking for that pointer since (iirc) KiBi reminded me of it's existance at the

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:37:41PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: Debian has agreed via the tech-ctte and via the recent GR that installing systemd by default on new installations *is* the *right thing*. And jessie is frozen. Since ages ;-) Please accept that. That said, useful patches

Re: Old-timer installer, task-sysvinit?

2014-11-23 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (2014-11-24): I tested it out with a fairly minimal install and it worked fine (well systemd-dbus is running, but that isn't init and hence not what I was testing). Pretty sure it's either dbus(-{daemon,launch}) or systemd-udev. So I learned a