sidu-base package is broken unless systemd is installed

[UP2L8]

...But in the long run i don't think that we will active support sysvinit any longer. We will not make any dependencies to systemd if not needed - and there will be only a handful of packages require systemd. But for these package we are not willing nor have the manpower to provide support for systemd and sysvinit.

How much of an advance notice will be provided to users when the decision is made to no longer support sysvinit?

[UP2L8]

Finally: PRAY and reboot - the order of praying and doing the reboot doesn't really matter

Have there been issues for users who have switched to systemd?

[UP2L8]

Performed a d-up a few minutes ago under LXDE and the issue with sidu-base seems to have been fixed.  I didn't get any error messages and sidu-base was included among the packages updated.

[melmarker]

sidu-base was a accident - we have not much packages with dependencies to a special init in installed systems. And our build scripts at the moment rely heavy on sysvinit - but that are run once scripts and will be mostly removed after the iso-build is done.

a few other scripts depend on sysvinit in the live iso - but as far as we can see run ok with systemd - but they will be changed. So the switch to systemd was not a big deal for us.

The decision to run with systemd in the future was short and hard:  We had the choice to drop our gnome flavour or sysvinit. After a few intensive tests we decided do let sysvinit go  - Thats all.

[wolf01]

Where is the Catch 22? We are no pilots ....

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apt-get install systemd sytemd-sysv libpam-systemd systemd-ui
should solve your problems.


hey, I've tried this but got an error (with 0 results on google :/ )

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package sytemd-sysv

any idea what is going on?

(I executed apt-get update before)

[dibl]

hey, I've tried this but got an error (with 0 results on google :/ )

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package sytemd-sysv

"systemd" has 2 "s" in it.

[wolf01]

hey, I've tried this but got an error (with 0 results on google :/ )

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package sytemd-sysv

"systemd" has 2 "s" in it.

right, thank you for your observation! I just copy/pasted it without looking at it