From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/925 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gerrit Pape Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: Debian/Ubuntu apt package instead of tar.gz? Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 18:17:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20051205171723.4042.qmail@aacb45070c5888.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> References: <87sltf9k5k.fsf@asfast.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133803187 30829 80.91.229.2 (5 Dec 2005 17:19:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1161-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Mon Dec 05 18:19:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjJxP-0005eZ-E9 for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 18:16:55 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 425 invoked by uid 76); 5 Dec 2005 17:17:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 420 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2005 17:17:15 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sltf9k5k.fsf@asfast.com> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:925 Archived-At: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:14:15PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I have some questions about the Debian/Ubuntu runit package. > > Does anyone know how much of a time lag there usually is between the > release of a new runit-x.y.z.tar.gz on the runit web site and the > updates of the Debian and Ubuntu apt packages for the same software? I don't know about ubuntu, but the Debian package I maintain myself. Normally it's available in Debian/sid nearly at the same time as the tarball, as long as we're not preparing a new release, and the current Debian/testing isn't frozen. > I'm wondering if it's worth blowing away my tar.gz installation of runit > on my Ubuntu machine and redoing it via apt. Using the Debian packages helps with dependencies, there're some *-run packages that automatically set up runit services, and depend on the runit package (e.g. socklog-run, bincimap-run, bcron-run, ...). > Also, will an apt installation use different install directories than > the default tar.gz build? As Debian adheres to the FHS, it doesn't install into the /package/ hierarchy, but into /sbin/, /usr/bin/, ... > If the directory structure of the installed software is the same for > both types of installations, then I wouldn't need to blow anything away > before re-installing from apt. > > And finally, one more question: I know that the runit apt package > doesn't replace init, but I can't tell whether it installs itself into > inittab as described on the "runit - use with traditional init" web > page. Does it do so? Yes it does, and for replacing sysvinit, there's the runit-run package, try $ apt-cache show runit-run Regards, Gerrit.