Bug#754274: live-config-sysvinit: inittab rewrite fails for ttyS0

2014-07-09 Thread Niels Laukens
Package: live-config-sysvinit Version: 3.0.23-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, I tried to make a debian-live image with a serial console. The default inittab has the serial getty commented out. Simply uncommenting this line (in includes.chroot) however did not result in a

Bug#754274: live-config-sysvinit: inittab rewrite fails for ttyS0

2014-07-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
Niels, Your patch breaks the normal use case (non-serial autologin) and is unnecessary anyway. You should simply customize live-config as explained in the manual to implement whatever non-standard behaviors you want, if the standard behaviors don't suit your needs. Ben -- Sent from my

Bug#754274: live-config-sysvinit: inittab rewrite fails for ttyS0

2014-07-09 Thread Niels Laukens
Ben, On 2014-07-09 13:58, Ben Armstrong wrote: Your patch breaks the normal use case (non-serial autologin) Could you elaborate on this? I've tried this on my setup, and with the patch applied, both normal tty and serial port work (with autologin). You should simply customize live-config as

Bug#754274: live-config-sysvinit: inittab rewrite fails for ttyS0

2014-07-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
I see. I'll try it when I have a moment. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.