[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Please test svn version of sysvinit

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

As you might have noticed on the commits list, I've spent the day
working on the sysvinit package, fixing quite a lot of bugs, and
synchronizing it with the ubuntu version.  Please test it and let me
know if you find any problems.  It boot my test machine just fine, but
I would like to have a test report from someone else as well. :)

The packages are available from
<URL:http://developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian/packages/>.

I've added a new essential package sysvutils.  Are everyone ok with
this?

This is the current changelog:

sysvinit (2.86.ds1-16~1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C and ^Z work when booting
    with 'emergency' kernel option.  Patch from Samuel
    Thibault. (Closes: #374543)
  * Rewrite usplash reactivation code in init.d/sendsigs to match the
    code in Ubuntu.  It need to behave the same way as the usplash
    startup code, and should not match the code deciding if
    usplash_write should be used.
  * Change handling of CONCURRENCY in init.d/rc, to make sure an
    unrecognized value is treated as 'none'. (Closes: #380602)
  * Make sure SATA disks are powered down as well as IDE disks.  Patch
    from Sebastian Reichelt.  (Closes: #348172)
  * Mount /dev/shm, /sys, /proc and /proc/bus/usb using
    noexec,nodev,nosuid to make it harder to misuse.
    (Closes: #378182, #378280)
  * Move NFS mounting to an if-up.d script, to make sure we try to
    mount NFS file systems after the network is available.  Based on
    patch from Ubuntu.  Modified to rewrite mountnfs.sh instead of
    renaming it to waitnfs.sh.  (Closes: #360123
  * Add rc.local support to be more compatible with non-Debian
    distributions.  Patch from Fabio M. Di Nitto via Ubuntu.  Modified to
    not print messages when VERBOSE=no.
  * Drop and remove /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs.  It is obsolete.
  * Split killall5, last, lastb, mesg and pidof out of the sysvinit
    package into a new sysvutils package to make it easier to replace
    init. (Closes: #385722)
  * Do not try to mount netdev file systems in mountall.sh.
    (Closes: #383073, #386063)
  * Mount netdev file systems when the network interfaces are enabled.
    (Closes: #383123)
  * Umount netdev file systems in umountnfs.sh. (Closes: #383124)
  * Remove obsolete code in init.d/rc to execute /sbin/unconfigured.sh
    and /sbin/setup.sh.  It was only to be used during installation,
    and the installer no longer need it.  Add a init.d script if you
    need the functionallity.

 -- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at debian.org>  Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:37:23 +0200

There are a few major changes done in Ubuntu which I have not merged yet.

 - Convert /var/run and /var/lock to tmpfs.  This would mean all
   packages expecting to find subdirectories there will need to create
   them at boot.  I believe this is a sane expectation, but do not
   know if two months before etch releases it the right time to
   introduce such requirement.

 - Make sysvinit non-essential.  This was done in Ubuntu in
   preparation for the upstart system, I belive.  We will need to test
   upstart before we make a decision here.  I've split out sysvutils
   to make it easier to test it.

 - Rewrite how /etc/mtab is generated during boot.  I have not yet had
   time to review these changes.

 - Remove some old code to handle kernels < 2.6.  I've left it behind
   so far, but it might be time to drop it for etch.  Etch will
   release with 2.6 kernels only, sa far as I know.

 - Add support for the 'multiuser' flag for update-rc.d.  It has the
   potential of speeding up shutdown, but I believe we should get it
   into the policy and file-rc before we start using it in Debian.

 - init.d script reordering.  I believe this was done to move gdm/kdm
   earlier in the boot, to make the machine appear to boot faster.  It
   is probably a good idea, but I have not checked how this would work
   for us.

 - Disable bootlogd.  I suspect we would be better of by removing it
   completely, and add some code in init.d/rc to pass all output to
   syslog or something.  bootlog do not work, so disabling is probably
   just as smart.

 - Change the VERBOSE default value from 'yes' to 'no'.  I boot using
   the 'quiet' kernel option myself and like it, so I suggest we do
   this change now.  Any protests?

 - Better handling of systems with locked root password.  I have not
   looked at this yet.

 - Modify the output from init to match the indentation of the output
   from the init.d scripts.  The change assume everyone is using the
   same log functions as ubuntu, and I have not bothered to apply it
   as several script in Debian still fail to use the log_* LSB
   functions.

We do have quite a few changes in our package still missing in Ubuntu,
so this go both ways.  I hope they will merge our new package soon,
but suspect they will focus on the upstart package instead.

There are also quite a lot of bugs left to process.  Especially the
one with problems mounting an USB disk because the USB subsystem
haven't started yet look interesting.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen