Slowly and surely, the programs in sysvinit are being duplicated by
other packages. The latest is pidof is now in procps-ng. Playing
around with sysvinit, I came up with a set of seds:
# In the book for some time to clarify a message
sed -i 's@Sending processes@& configured via /etc/inittab@g' src/init.c
sed -ri -e '/utmpdump/d' \ # Remove utmpdump
-e '/mountpoint/d' \ # Remove mountpoint
-e '/mesg/d' \ # Remove mesg/last
-e 's/pidof.8//' \ # Remove pidof.8
-e '/bin\/pidof/d' \ # Remove pidof
-e 's/= sulogin(.8)?/=/' \ # Remove sulogin
-e '/INSTALL_DIR/s/..ROOT..bin.//' \ # Don't install /bin
-e '/INSTALL_DIR.*usr.bin/d' \ # Don't install /usr/bin
-e '/INSTALL_DIR.*man1/d' \ # Don't install man1 dir
-e '/if.*lastb/,+2d' \ # Don't make symlink for lastb
src/Makefile
# Fix a gcc warning message
sed -i -e '/realuid/d' src/shutdown.c
All of the above are not strictly necessary as the directories already
exist. I removed them for testing with a DESTDIR (actually ROOT)
install. The lastb symlink is not created in a normal install because
it is already there from util-linux, but that sed element is a somewhat
unusual example that can be instructive.
What this leaves in DESTDIR is:
./sbin:
bootlogd fstab-decode halt init killall5 poweroff reboot runlevel
shutdown telinit
./usr/include:
initreq.h
./usr/share/man/man5:
initscript.5 inittab.5
./usr/share/man/man8:
bootlogd.8 halt.8 killall5.8 reboot.8 shutdown.8
fstab-decode.8 init.8 poweroff.8 runlevel.8 telinit.8
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Is it useful to update using all of this? The last four elements are
not strictly needed for LFS. We could approach this in other ways
though. We could create a custom Makefile or a patch for everything.
What do you think?
-- Bruce
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