[arch-general] Telinit?

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Sun Aug 16 19:22:30 UTC 2020


On 2020-08-16 3:06 pm, Andreas Bosch wrote:
> Am 16.08.20 um 20:59 schrieb David Rosenstrauch:
>> On 2020-08-15 2:53 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>>> Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut?  It used to be
>>> included in systemd-sysvcompat
>>> [...]
>> 
>> I looked into this a bit more, and it looks like this was not an
>> upstream change.  Rather, it was removed in Arch in this commit:
>> https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/9ca7c019fe8f59505cf1f6dc4163e146f3e777a7#diff-8d0411b338c83cd8cd8ad9d9db127101
>> 
> 
> I believe it was removed as a result of upstream moving the creation
> of those symlinks behind the HAVE_SYSV_COMPAT flag.
> 
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/6589a56972d9afe9d860889f11cb9c8e6cb8a60c

Thanks for the pointer.  I'm a little confused though.  The comment says 
"dont install systemd-initctl, runlevel, telinit if no SYSV compat".  
But since it was the systemd-sysvcompat package that was providing those 
binaries, shouldn't that package be built so as to include them?

Thanks,

DR


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