@@ -24,6+24,8 @@ shepherd for Debian, to the point that shepherd runs now on my main hosts. Below
## Installing shepherd on Debian Bookworm
## Installing shepherd on Debian Bookworm
+The following instructions are safe, they won't delete your existing init system, just renaming some binaries like /sbin/{halt,reboot,poweroff}, see below.
+
### Installing guile-3.0
Bookworm packages guile-3.0.8. This may work, but my tests have been done with a more recent version,
### Installing guile-3.0
Bookworm packages guile-3.0.8. This may work, but my tests have been done with a more recent version,
+This is the real init engine. Care has been taken with the Debian alternatives system to not clobber your original /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot and /sbin/poweroff by renaming them as /sbin/halt.orig-init, /sbin/reboot.orig-init and /sbin/poweroff.orig-init.