[Buildroot] [RFC 0/3] init: Add s6 as init system

Vadym Kochan vadim4j at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 12:20:23 UTC 2019


Hi Eric,

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Eric Le Bihan wrote:
> Hi!
> On 2019-01-16 23:51, Vadim Kochan wrote:
> > Add new system init support (BR2_INIT_S6) based on s6 suite. This is very-very
> > basic support which does not have any setup automation logic (but only getty)
> > but it allows to install custom s6-rc services in a bit easier way by the
> > board. All s6-rc services which were copied by rootfs-overlay or post-build
> > will be compiled as s6-rc db into /etc/s6-rc/compiled-initial, which also has
> > /etc/s6-rc/compiled link to easy replace it in runtime.
> >
> > In case if such kind of change will be merged, then may be it would be good to
> > think about of some packages integration into s6-rc system.
> >
> > Vadim Kochan (3):
> >   package/s6-linux-init: Build also for the host
> >   package/s6-linux-init: Allow to install as init system
> >   package/s6-rc: Allow to integrate s6-rc services
> >
> >  package/s6-linux-init/s6-linux-init.mk | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  package/s6-rc/rc.init                  |  4 ++
> >  package/s6-rc/rc.shutdown              |  3 ++
> >  package/s6-rc/s6-rc.mk                 | 32 ++++++++++++++++
> >  system/Config.in                       |  9 ++++-
> >  5 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 package/s6-rc/rc.init
> >  create mode 100644 package/s6-rc/rc.shutdown
> >
> > --
> > 2.14.1
> >
> 
> I worked on a s6-based init system eons ago [1], but without using a
> host variant of s6-linux-init.
> 
> I'll test your patches.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/elebihan/br2-ext-skarnet
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> ELB

Do you have any conceptual comments regarding this ? Also I think may be
it's better to have /etc/s6-rc into /etc/s6/rc.

Thanks!
Vadim Kochan


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