Open adrelanos opened 10 months ago
1) If dracut needs libpam-systemd, it should depend on it. If it does not today, please file a bug in Debian.
2) systemd gets pulled in by debootstrap itself, based on package Priorities. This is dependent upon the target suite being installed. Iow old Debian versions get sysvinit instead, but we do not control this.
It seems grml-debootstrap leaves systemd installation to "pure chance"? The source code, default packages does not include systemd.
Probably the packages file has some package which installs a dependency that pulls
libpam-systemd
.Without
libpam-systemd
grml-debootstrap will fail ifexport INITRD_GENERATOR=dracut
is set.The system will not be bootable.
I don't know if that is a bug in dracut or if it can at all work without systemd.
Should systemd (or any init system) installation be declared explicit rather than implicit in packages file?
I am using a shorter packages file and it took me a while to figure out why dracut fails.