Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:36:04AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:08:18PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 07:24:20AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> > > ]] Tzafrir Cohen
>
> > > > In sysv init scripts the daemon forks into the background. In upstrart
> > > > and systemd it doesn't have to (or shouldn't). (not) forking requires a
> > > > different command-line argument, normally. This leads to odd beasts such
> > > > as safe_mysqld.
>
> > > You can just use the --background switch to start-stop-daemon with
> > > sysvinit scripts.
>
> > It's still a different command. And anyway, very often the daemon itself
> > needs to handle the PID files, which means that I can't use that.
>
> > But more importantly, start-stop-daemon only starts and stops the daemon
> > once. It's not a daemon monitor. Would there be any objection if I
> > replaced init.d scripts in some of my packages with runit configs (as
> > does the git daemon)?
>
> The git daemon offers alternatives: one package with a sysvinit config, and
> one with a runit config. If that's what you have in mind, I don't think
> anyone would object. But making your server package use runit exclusively
> would certainly bring objections. If we actually believed runit was a
> viable replacement for sysvinit, we could have done *that* transition well
> before either upstart or systemd even existed; but we didn't, and I think
> imposing runit on users of your package while Policy 9.3.2 says you should
> be using sysvinit would be frowned upon.
>
> I for one would welcome a policy discussion (i.e., on debian-policy) of how
> runit fits into the larger question of preserving coherence of the Debian
> system while allowing maintainers to take advantage of (or experiment with)
> new innovations.
Thanks for your reply. A few words about my motivation: Package
Asterisk, ships with a standard init.d script. But upstream prefers to
use a wrapper shell script called "safe_asterisk" (somewhat like
safe_mysqld). Currently the Debian init.d script will allow you to run
either (settings in /etc/defaults/asterisk .
Naturally a monitoring script written in shell is not idea, and it can
go wrong. The package includes example upstart and systemd configs, but
the user will have to install those manually.
I don't really like the potentially-racy wrapper script, but then again,
I can't provide a better alternative so far.
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