Am 22.07.2011 15:53, schrieb Stephan Seitz: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:59:09PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> (Ignoring the kFreeBSD side of things for a bit): Why? As others have >> pointed out, systemd uses sysvinit scripts just fine. > > Well, then why don’t we put systemd in testing as alternate init system > and release it as alternate init system in wheezy? Those maintainers who > want to write unit files in addition to init scripts can do this. In > wheezy + 1 we can use systemd as default init with the requisition to > still support init scripts for maintainers who don’t want to switch to > unit files or third party software. We already have systemd in unstable (and soon testing) and even a handful of packages shipping native systemd service files. The most prominent ones are probably rsyslog, dbus, udev and network-manager. Those packages ship the native systemd unit files along side the "legacy" sysv init scripts. systemd copes with that just fine: if a native unit file of the same name exists, it will take precedence over the sysv init script. The real question here is: Do we want to ship both a sysvinit and systemd unit files indefinitely? This means package maintainers would have to keep both updated (it has to be nothed though, that for the examples above, those files are shipped upstream) and tested. This is a valid concern, so the intention to get rid of (manually written) init scripts, if a package ships a native systemd unit file, is understandable and we should aim for that. I see two solutions for that 1/ We "port" systemd to kfreebsd or write a replacement which understands native systemd unit files. 2/ Use systemd unit files as input and create sysv unit files from that. This should cover most of the simple daemons without complex requirements and my guess is that this would be the vast majority. For the remaining services we could continue shipping both. Stuff like mounting/fsck/ etc. (basically rcS) would also continue to use sysv init script on non-systemd systems. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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