playbooks/debian/roles/remove-systemd/tasks/main.yml

   1 - name: "Configure apt: pin down SystemD packages"
   2   become: true
   3   copy:
   4     src: etc
   5     dest: /
   6     owner: root
   7     group: root
   8     mode: '0640'
   9     force: no
  10
  11 - name: Install SysV init
  12   become: true
  13   apt:
  14     autoclean: yes
  15     autoremove: yes
  16     install_recommends: no
  17     name: ['sysvinit-core', 'sysvinit-utils']
  18     purge: yes
  19     state: latest
  20     update_cache: yes
  21
  22 - name: Configure SysV init
  23   become: true
  24   copy:
  25     src: /usr/share/sysvinit/inittab
  26     remote_src: true
  27     dest: /etc/inittab
  28     owner: root
  29     group: root
  30     mode: '0644'
  31     force: no
  32
  33 - name: Purge SystemD
  34   import_tasks: remove-systemd.yml
  35
  36 - block:
  37     - name: Reboot if SystemD is still active
  38       become: true
  39       reboot:
  40     - name: Purge SystemD after reboot
  41       import_tasks: remove-systemd.yml
  42   when: "'rc' in purged and purged.rc != 0"