Bug#132542: sysvinit: please make /etc/init.d/rcS a conffile

Dmitry Bogatov KAction at debian.org
Tue Jan 15 16:12:44 GMT 2019


[2019-01-13 17:10] Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2019, Pierre Ynard wrote:
> 
> > You've moved them to /usr/libexec/ that doesn't exist on Debian, not
> > /lib/init/ ?...
> 
> /usr/libexec/ is now allowed on Debian, but anything under /usr
> does not seem to be the right place for things used by init,
> unless these are late enough that /usr is always mounted when
> they are used.

As far as I can tell, /sbin/init invocation is late enough.  Usrmerge is
coming. /usr is mounted by initramfs since initramfs-tools=0.117 (25 Sep 2014):

	* Mount /usr if present in the /etc/fstab on the mounted rootfs
	  (Closes: #652459)




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