Help with #953875: permission to ship /etc/inittab in runit integration

[Adam Borowski]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 01:36:09AM +0200, Lorenzo wrote:
> Dear list,
> Dear sysvinit maintainers,
> 
> I have issues with #953875 (intalling runit will force an init switch
> systemd --> sysvinit).
> 
> Currently, the best idea that I have is to merge all runit-integration
> (runit-sysv and runit-systemd) into one new package, and drop the
> dependency with any specific init system, thus solving the bug.

Sounds good so far.

> The problem: the sysv integration respawns runsvdir adding a line in
> /etc/inittab and since I want to drop the dependency on sysvinit-core,
> there is no guarantee that the inittab file exists at install time.
> In such case I need to copy inittab from somewhre (likely
> /usr/share/runit/ ) into /etc/ .

There's currently no shared way to manage inittab.  This could be added eg.
to init-system-helpers.

Another, hacky, option is to declare a trigger on /etc/inittab appearing.


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