sysvinit-3.08

[pierre]

3.08 latest

Enable kexec, fix halt in some situations

This release focuses on three changes which are basically imports of patches from Gentoo. Special thanks to floppym for supplying these.

• Applied a patch from floppm which adds kexec option to the halt command. This can be used as "halt -k".

• floppym provided patch which causes the halt command to call "shutdown -h -H" instead of "shutdown -h" when halt is invoked without parameters. This forces the shutdown command to set the INIT_HALT variable and assume, unless other conditions apply, that the "halt" call really wants to halt the machine and INIT_HALT should be set. In other words we assume halt wants to halt unless told otherwise. Addresses downstream Gentoo bug ID 911257.

• Updated halt documentation and help output to display parameters in alphabetical order.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 3864d235cfd3623f6a4765d9acd13caee62c6629