Is antiX going to get s6 init manager?

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I see that s6 is in the antiX repo since November: https://mirrors.evowise.com/mxlinux-packages/antix/buster/pool/main/s/s6/

Just wondering if that’s in the plans to offer an s6 init option in the future? Or is it already working and ready to try? A search for the term s6 in the forum turns up no results for me.

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Perhaps a long-term plan since I haven’t got it to work in antiX (yet).

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OK good to know. I tried it on Artix where it was mildly unstable, but I’ve been hearing a lot of praise for it.

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Obarun has the best implementation of s6 IMO.

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A POC was made from a long time now. This is old thread, but it worked before and should work today: https://forum.obarun.org/viewtopic.php?id=981

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eric wrote:

A POC was made from a long time now. This is old thread, but it worked before and should work today: https://forum.obarun.org/viewtopic.php?id=981

Your link links to this blog post where the author expounds on his method of trying to get s6 working on antiX: https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/291/

anticapitalista was commenting on that same blog post in December 2019, saying that he was trying that method: https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/291/#comment-4246

But in his post earlier in this thread anticapitalista says he did not get it to work. It would therefore seem that the method does not actually work on antiX.

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I installed Antix on a VM from the antiX-19.2_x64-full.iso

I modified the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.conf to get a correct repo.

then i launched this script below.

It install all the necessary things and reboot the machine, easy peasy!

I didn’t did any more test but surely some adjustment need to be made for Antix policies. Anyway, the machine boot correctly and launch the X with slim.

#!/bin/bash

#antix from full iso

TMP="/tmp/install"

skalibs_tag="v2.10.0.0"
execline_tag="v2.7.0.0"
s6_tag="v2.10.0.0"
s6_rc_tag="v0.5.2.1"
oblibs_tag="v0.1.3.0"
_66_tag="v0.6.1.1"
_66_tools_tag="v0.0.7.1"
s6_linux_utils_tag="v2.5.1.4"
s6_portable_utils_tag="v2.2.3.1"

flags_path=(

    --prefix=/usr
    --libexecdir=/usr/libexec
    --bindir=/bin
    --shebangdir=/bin
    --sbindir=/sbin
    --enable-shared
    --disable-allstatic
    --disable-static
)

# lowdown package doesn't exist on Antix, so do not try to build
# the documentation

_sed_lowdown() {

    sed 's:^LOWDOWN.*$::' -i ${1}
}

prepare_build() {
    apt update || return 1
    apt install git || return 1
    apt install build-essential || return 1

    mkdir ${TMP}
}

## skalibs
build_skalibs() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://github.com/skarnet/skalibs

    cd skalibs

    git checkout tags/"${skalibs_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]}

    make clean

    make install || return 1
}

## execline
build_execline() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://github.com/skarnet/execline

    cd execline

    git checkout tags/"${execline_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]}

    make clean

    make install || return 1
}

## s6
build_s6() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://github.com/skarnet/s6

    cd s6

    git checkout tags/"${s6_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]} --with-dynlib=/usr/lib/execline

    make clean

    make install || return 1
}

## s6-rc
build_s6_rc() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://github.com/skarnet/s6-rc

    cd s6-rc

    git checkout tags/"${s6_rc_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]}

    make clean

    make install || return 1
}

## s6-linux-utils
build_s6_linux-utils() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://github.com/skarnet/s6-linux-utils

    cd s6-linux-utils

    git checkout tags/"${s6_linux_utils_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]}

    make clean

    make install || return 1
}

## s6-portable-utils
build_s6_portable-utils() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://github.com/skarnet/s6-portable-utils

    cd s6-portable-utils

    git checkout tags/"${s6_portable_utils_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]}

    make clean

    make install || return 1
}

## oblibs
build_oblibs() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://framagit.org/obarun/oblibs

    cd oblibs

    git checkout tags/"${oblibs_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]}

    make clean

    make install || return 1
}

## 66
build_66() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://framagit.org/obarun/66

    cd 66

    _sed_lowdown Makefile

    git checkout tags/"${_66_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]}

    make clean

    make install || return 1

}

## 66-tools
build_66-tools() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://framagit.org/obarun/66-tools

    cd 66-tools

    _sed_lowdown Makefile

    git checkout tags/"${_66_tools_tag}"

    ./configure ${flags_path[@]}

    make clean

    make install || return 1
}

cp_skeleton() {
    cp -f /etc/66/{init,halt,reboot,poweroff,shutdown} /sbin/ || return 1
    sed 's:^66-boot.*$:66-boot -m:' -i /sbin/init
}

prepare_boot() {

    cd ${TMP}

    git clone https://framagit.org/pkg/obmods/boot-66serv

    cd boot-66serv

    _sed_lowdown Makefile

    ./configure

    make install || return 1

}

build_tree() {

    ## don't crash here in case of multiple use of the script
    66-tree -n boot

    66-enable -t boot boot@system || return 1

    BOOT_CONF="$(readlink /etc/66/conf/boot@system/version)"

    cp "${BOOT_CONF}/.boot@system" "${BOOT_CONF}/boot@system" || return 1

    66-env -t boot -r 'CGROUPS=!no' boot@system || return 1

    66-enable -F -t boot boot@system || return 1

    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/lib/random-seed count=1 bs=512 status=none || return 1

}

build_tree_root() {

    66-tree -cnE root

    exec 3>&1 1>/etc/66/service/slim
cat <<EOF
[main]
@type = oneshot
@version = 0.0.1
@description = "Slim daemon"
@user = ( root )

[start]
@execute = ( slim )

EOF
    exec 1>&3 3>&-

    66-enable slim
}

_run() {

    if ! ${1} ; then
        printf "%s\n" "unable to ${2} ${1#*_}"
        exit 1
    fi
}

## do it

_run prepare_build "install"
_run build_skalibs "skalibs"
_run build_execline "execline"
_run build_s6 "s6"
_run build_s6_rc "s6-rc"
_run build_s6_linux-utils "s6-linux-utils"
_run build_s6_portable-utils "s6-portable-utils"
_run build_oblibs "oblibs"
_run build_66 "66"
_run build_66-tools "66-tools"

cd ${TMP}

_run cp_skeleton "copy"

# build and remove a dummy tree to have the /usr/share/66 created
66-tree -n dummy
66-tree -R dummy
_run prepare_boot "build"
_run build_tree "build"
_run build_tree_root "build"

# reboot of the machine
66-hpr -r -f

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WOW! Thanks for that eric. I’ll give it a try as soon as I can.

You said you

modified the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.conf to get a correct repo.

What exactly did you change?

I really do admire all your work on Obarun and s6/66 integration and I hope we can incorporate it into antiX.

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What exactly did you change?

The installer put an invalid Antix mirror list at /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.conf. Well, we know that the life of a mirrorlist can be erratic 🙂 and i picked the old ISO :/(i was lazy to download the fresh one due of my poor connection). So, i took one from your package mirror list.

I hope we can incorporate it into antiX

It will be a pleasure to help you to accomplish it and really interesting for me because it may increase the portability of the 66 tools depending of the issues meets.

Please free to send me a mail if you need my help.

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eric’s script works very well in my ‘brief’ test.
There are some issues, down to differences in the boot scripts re Debian(antiX)/arch(obarun).

More testing needed, but looking good.

(Debian s6 does not work very well at all)

added: live version gives some kernel error at boot.

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Nice work there Eric. The install script worked on my antiX Libre respin. eth0 is down for the moment, the OS threw up an “Unable to find a connection to the system bus” error for connman.

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down to differences in the boot scripts re Debian(antiX)/arch(obarun).

Let me the time to make some test to see what happens.

“Unable to find a connection to the system bus”

The script just install the necessary to boot the machine and do not add runtime service like dbus (except slim). You need to enable what you need. You can find good example here https://framagit.org/pkg/observice and here https://github.com/mobinmob/void-66-services/tree/samba/usr/share/66/service

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I never had this building problem in sid/unstable because:

liblowdown-dev/unstable 0.8.1-1 amd64
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lowdown/unstable 0.8.1-1 amd64
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anti-X - Adélie - obarun - systemd Free Space

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lowdown is only in bullseye/testing and sid repos, not present stable/buster (Eric tested using antiX-19/buster)

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antiX-21-a1 running s6/66 with sysvinit removed.

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