From aa5d488c75670271e83c30087fa81027042a9621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: admin Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:17:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn b/Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn index f18ad25..90afddc 100644 --- a/Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn +++ b/Debian_Bookworm_with_Mate_and_the_shepherd_init_system.mdwn @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ shepherd for Debian, to the point that shepherd runs now on my main hosts. Below ## 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, @@ -94,6 +96,8 @@ You install with: ### Installing shepherd-0.10.2 +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. + The packages are below: amd64: -- 2.39.2