From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/928 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: Debian/Ubuntu apt package instead of tar.gz? Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:24:09 -0500 Message-ID: <87psob6v3q.fsf@asfast.com> References: <87sltf9k5k.fsf@asfast.com> <20051205171723.4042.qmail@aacb45070c5888.315fe32.mid.smarden.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133822055 32737 80.91.229.2 (5 Dec 2005 22:34:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 22:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1164-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Mon Dec 05 23:34:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EjOs3-0005s3-OB for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:31:43 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 7226 invoked by uid 76); 5 Dec 2005 22:32:04 -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 7220 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2005 22:32:04 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hippo.e-hippo.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0dX6583uYG75Z5Ysl/DQFBM1A7w= Original-Sender: news Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:928 Archived-At: Gerrit Pape writes: > 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. > > [ ... ] Thank you for answering all my questions. This is exactly the information I was looking for. >> 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 Yep, I know about runit-run, but "apt-cache show runit" doesn't state whether or not runit installs itself into inittab. Could that perhaps be briefly mentioned in a future release of those docs? Actually, this brings up a related question. Assuming for the moment that Ubuntu functions the same as Debian, how many of the seven steps described in the "Replacing sysvinit (GNU/Linux)" section of the "runit - replacing init" page of the official docs will be automatically performed on a well-configured Debian/Ubuntu during an "apt-get install runit-run"? In other words, after installing runit-run in this manner, will I still have to manually convert some /etc/init.d scripts to be runit-based before I reboot? Thanks again. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com God bless you.