Proof of Concept - 'init-diversity' spins of Debian based distros

[Matthias Geiger]

Am 11.03.24 um 10:50 schrieb prowler_gr at yahoo.gr:
> Only a few (select) debian packages have s6-rc init scripts or s6-66 service frontend (unit) files available in these spins.
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> There was an (earlier) s6-rc only Devuan spin I put together based on Gnuinos just to demonstrate how easy it is to have a fully functional plasma system with just a handfull of services ported from other distros (such as Artix) & a few written from scratch without any reliance on either sysvinit scripts or systemd units.
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> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=46467#p46467
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> I guess packaging s6 services & defining service dependencies is where the work from the individual distros will be required as all distro's would have a different collection of software & combinations they would support.
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> A good read in regards to 66 service files can be found here (attention to section “A word about the @execute key”)
> https://web.obarun.org/software/66/latest/66-frontend.html
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> As I read this you could pretty much use a sysvinit script, a bash script to resolve a systemd file, or a simple execline command.
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> s6-rc is very similar
> https://skarnet.org/software/s6/servicedir.html
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> There have been talks about the creation of a tool that parses systemd service unit files & converts them to s6 ones, but I understand it won’t happen any time soon:
> https://skarnet.org/software/s6/unit-conversion.html
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> I hope this helps
> ProwlerGr
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> Στις Δευτέρα 11 Μαρτίου 2024 στις 05:41:41 μ.μ. GMT+11, ο χρήστης tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> έγραψε:
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> Hi,
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> This is great news! Thanks for the good work!
> Just one question, on the devuan forums we talked a lot  about debian's slow removal of sysvinit scripts
> and try to figure out a solution (e.g. the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package) so did you write s6 init scripts
> for all debian service packages or do you use systemd units ?
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> Ciao,
> Tito
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Hi all.

Is anyone aware of Debian ISOs that provide openRC support ootb ? Having 
to manually purge systemd  after installation is unconvenient tbh.

best,

-- 
Matthias Geiger <werdahias>
Debian Maintainer
"Freiheit ist immer Freiheit des anders Denkenden" -- Rosa Luxemburg

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