Hi,
* Simon Eigeldinger [Sat Feb 13, 2016 at 11:08:44AM +0100]:
its weird. maybe michael could chime in and bring some light in.
I just took a quick look at it, it's exactly what I had in mind. A few weeks ago I noticed that file-rc was no longer used as init system for daily Grml ISOs because of package dependencies which could no longer be resolved for file-rc. While I'm working on the migration to systemd I still wanted to support the file-rc use case as-is. So I coordinated file-rc uploads towards Debian with the debian-systemd folks and uploaded an according file-rc package on 28th of January.
Sadly the new file-rc version doesn't play together with FAI (which is used via grml-live), since FAI diverts the affected files on its own, and therefore the ISO build process fails with:
| Adding 'diversion of /usr/sbin/update-rc.d to /usr/sbin/update-rc.d.init-system-helpers by file-rc' | dpkg-divert: error: 'diversion of /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d to /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d.init-system-helpers by file-rc' clashes with 'diversion of /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d to /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d.distrib by fai' | dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/file-rc_0.8.18_all.deb (--unpack): | subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 | Removing 'diversion of /usr/sbin/update-rc.d to /usr/sbin/update-rc.d.init-system-helpers by file-rc' | dpkg-divert: error: mismatch on divert-to | when removing 'diversion of /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d to /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d.init-system-helpers by file-rc' | found 'diversion of /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d to /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d.distrib by fai' | dpkg: error while cleaning up: | subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 | Errors were encountered while processing: | /var/cache/apt/archives/file-rc_0.8.18_all.deb | E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This was limited to Debian/unstable builds only until 10th of February, though nowadays the according file-rc version is also available in Debian/testing. So if you build your own Grml ISO against Debian/testing or Debian/unstable you'll end up with an ISO running systemd and getting its unconfigured login system. :)
I'll see what I can do about a fixed file-rc package for our use case.
regards, -mika-