On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 17:01 +0000, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Thu 04 Dec 2014 at 12:02:27 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > + It is also a good idea to install > > + <systemitem role="package"> sysvinit-core, sysvint and sysvinit-utils > > + </systemitem> as the first packages when upgrading. > > What is gained by doing this? If pinning is used sysvinit-core is > installed.
Are you sure? I'm not. Pinning is a help for apt and aptitude to resolve which packages to install. > If sysvinit-core is installed before a dist-upgrade is done > why bother with pinning? Other packages might install systemd-sysv by mistake? As was the case with libpam-systemd before the Depends: of libpam-systemd was changed to "systemd-shim | systemd-sysv"? Pinning helps you to avoid such mistakes. > Aren't sysvint and sysvinit-utils already on the system and upgraded > without doing anything special with them beforehand? Not sure about this either. Are you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
