Re: Why /command ?

2017-07-03 Thread Laurent Bercot
1) /command can be put anywhere I/Devuan wants, or if I want to go to the trouble, removed completely. It can probably be removed completely, and binaries linked into /bin instead. /command is nice to have on systems where you keep a FHS installation and a slashpackage installation separate;

Re: Why /command ?

2017-07-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 03 Jul 2017 13:25:19 + "Laurent Bercot" wrote: > >So I was wondering what the original intent was in having these two > >directories directly off the root? Is it so the init and supervision > >can proceed even before partition mounts are complete? Is there some > >other reason? Can an

Re: Why /command ?

2017-07-03 Thread Laurent Bercot
So I was wondering what the original intent was in having these two directories directly off the root? Is it so the init and supervision can proceed even before partition mounts are complete? Is there some other reason? Can anyone recommend setups that fulfill the reasons for the direct-off-root

Re: Why /command ?

2017-07-02 Thread Guillermo
2017-07-01 20:37 GMT-03:00 Steve Litt: > > So I was wondering what the original intent was in having these two > directories directly off the root? Is it so the init and supervision > can proceed even before partition mounts are complete? Is there some > other reason? It has been mentioned in pass

Re: Why /command ?

2017-07-02 Thread Andy Mender
Dear Steve, I tinkered with runit on Devuan and Gentoo and managed to get some things done with it in the past. Here is the link to the docs I wrote for Devuan previously: https://talk.devuan.org/t/runit-as-init-supervisor-for-devuan/487 Cheers, Andy On 2 July 2017 at 01:37, Steve Litt wrote:

Re: Why /command ?

2017-07-01 Thread Kevin Berry
Steve, Have you checked for the source package to runit-run? You may find trouble getting the Devuan devs to accept a slackpackage install, since it doesn't meet the FHS. runit-run is a package that used to exist in Debian (and Ubuntu imported it until 12.04, I believe), that Gerrit made to fit

Why /command ?

2017-07-01 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I'm writing a document on how to install runit on Devuan, with the hope that some day it will lead to a Devuan package that makes sense and to the best degree possible implements the goals of the software's author. Most of it's pretty straightforward, but the runit install scripts (packag