From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/921 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lloyd Zusman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Debian/Ubuntu apt package instead of tar.gz? Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:14:15 -0500 Message-ID: <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 1133303367 6383 80.91.229.2 (29 Nov 2005 22:29:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:29:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1157-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Tue Nov 29 23:29:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EhDvA-00071v-Jv for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:25:56 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 19468 invoked by uid 76); 29 Nov 2005 22:26:17 -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 19462 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2005 22:26:17 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-Lines: 28 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:crdFtnttjAqWqcUymZf7dyn4hgg= Original-Sender: news Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:921 Archived-At: 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'm wondering if it's worth blowing away my tar.gz installation of runit on my Ubuntu machine and redoing it via apt. Also, will an apt installation use different install directories than the default tar.gz build? 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? Thanks in advance for any info you folks can give me about all this. -- Lloyd Zusman ljz@asfast.com God bless you.