On Wed, 14.07.10 13:45, Matthias Clasen (mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > To achieve what you want to do upstart would need to support something > > similar: make it possible to install it without insisting on the > > /sbin/init file name and related ones, and then add in those names via > > symlinks only by a an upstart-sysvinit package or so. But upstart > > doesn't support something like that. Sorry. > > Would alternatives work here ? Yes, the alternatives system would probably work. However, I think there are things where it is a good idea to use and where it isn't. And I think this case is one of the latter. If we go down the switchable init via symlinks route then i'd prefer if we did this via installing/removing packages, not via the alternatives system. i.e. if people want to keep upstart around then somebody should sit down and prep packages which move all upstart binaries to other names and then introduces a package upstart-sysvinit which then symlinks the names to the old sysv command names. People could then install that package and uninstall systemd-sysvinit to switch the default, while keeping both systems around and accessible via init= on the kernel cmdline. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
