Bug#771825: release-notes: Update information on non-systemd Jessie upgrades and installations
On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 23:01 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 22:16 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > On 2014-12-02 18:17, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > Package: release-notes
> > > Severity: Important
> > [1] I would be expecting you to modify a file called "en/issues.dbk"...
> > and I am not sure what the "numbers" at the beginning of each line is
> > doing in an XML document, but...
Attached is a svn diff for the release-notes. Comments are welcomed.
Regarding the Installation guide for the second hunk, where to get that
stuff?
Thanks!
Index: en/issues.dbk
===================================================================
--- en/issues.dbk (revision 10513)
+++ en/issues.dbk (working copy)
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
role="package">sysvinit-core</systemitem> or <systemitem
role="package">upstart</systemitem>, it is recommended to setup
APT pinning prior to the upgrade. As an example, to prevent
- <systemitem role="package">systemd</systemitem> from being
+ <systemitem role="package">systemd-sysv</systemitem> from being
installed during the upgrade, you can create a file called
<filename>/etc/apt/preferences.d/local-pin-init</filename> with
the following contents:
@@ -193,12 +193,16 @@
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1
</screen>
- <caution>
- <para>
- Be advised that some packages may have degraded behaviour or
- may be lacking features under a non-default init system.
- </para>
- </caution>
+ <note>
+ It is also good to install
+ <systemitem role="package"> sysvinit-core, sysvint and sysvinit-utils
+ </systemitem> as the first packages when upgrading. In case
+ you want an <emphasis>as-systemd-free-as-possible</emphasis>
+ desktop environment, it is also recommended to install <systemitem
+ role="package">systemd-shim</systemitem> in order to
+ help apt and aptitude to avoid installing systemd-sysv and
+ other *systemd* components, unintentionally.
+ </note>
<para>
Please note that the upgrade may install packages containing
"systemd" in their name even with APT pinning. These alone do
@@ -207,6 +211,12 @@
role="package">systemd-sysv</systemitem> package must be
installed first.
</para>
+ <caution>
+ <para>
+ Be advised that some packages may have degraded behaviour or
+ may be lacking features under a non-default init system.
+ </para>
+ </caution>
<section id="systemd-auto-mounts-incompat">
<!-- Wheezy to Jessie -->
<title>Stricter handling of failing mounts during boot under systemd</title>
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