Debian package

[mobin-2008]

Hi! I created Dinit package for debian. It's available at mentors.debian.net and I looking for a sponsor for pushing it to Debian unstable repo. Feel free to send comments and reviews in mentors.

Regrads

[davmac314]

One obvious thing: could it be upgraded to 0.16.1? That has a few bugs fixed compared to 0.16.0

[mobin-2008]

I'll fix this thing. (Working with Debian interfaces is need more time)

[mobin-2008]

Dinit 0.16.1 is now available in Debian mentors.

[mobin-2008]

Seems like no one interest in moving dinit to debian official repos. I will try again when stable version of Dinit released (or at least beta release).

[ProwlerGr]

It is becoming a popular option in antiX:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/antix-23-2-init-diversity-2025-remaster-edition/

I maintain an independent repo here
https://gitlab.com/init-diversity/dinit

[ProwlerGr]

Maybe give it a spin & post your impressions in the antiX forum.
I will also opt to create multi-init spins for MX Devuan & Debian.

[mobin-2008]

Sure but I don't have a Devuan/AntiX system to actually test your work right now. I will post my feedback when I tested it.

[davmac314]

From that thread, I find this troubling:

After troubleshooting commands seem to need to be:
reboot: /usr/lib/dinit/shutdown -r --system

You should not be running shutdown with the "--system" argument; that's going to bypass service shutdown.

If dinit really core dumps when a normal shutdown is attempted, I'd love to know why. Did you build with SBINDIR=/usr/lib/dinit as would be required if dinit's shutdown is in that location?

[ProwlerGr]

Hi Davin,
Yes I worked out what the problem was (It was an issue with my wrapper multi-init script - nothing wrong with dinit's native function).

A link to the scripts I use here https://gitlab.com/init-diversity/general/init-diversity-tools/-/tree/debian/init-diversity-tools?ref_type=heads.
You are also very welcome to post in the antiX forum, we would love to see you engaging with the there.
Keep up the good work!

[ProwlerGr]

Did you build with SBINDIR=/usr/lib/dinit as would be required if dinit's shutdown is in that location?

Something like that, we have diverted all dinit binaries to a folder under /lib/dinit & added some symlinks from /usr/lib/dinit back to /usr/sbin. As we have multiple inits in a single installation the shutdown - poweroff - reboot have been replaced with a wrapper as per the above post.

Maybe try the spin in a spare partition or a VM, I'm sure that you will find it quite interesting as an init developer...