Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I demand that Steve Langasek may or may not have written...
>
> [snip]
>> One of the worst contributors to the use of 'script' in upstart jobs
>> instead of 'exec' is the need for backwards-compatibility with pre-upstart
>> /etc/default/* files.  The options here are all fairly poor:
>> 
>>  - ignore the admin's /etc/default settings when switching init systems
>>  - migrate any local changes to /etc/default into the upstart job at
>>    upgrade time, by editing a conffile in a maintainer script
>>  - keep sourcing /etc/default at runtime
>
>> I guess systemd has largely chosen option 1 (in part because there's a
>> weird view in the systemd community that these jobs belong upstream, so
>> Debian integration issues are entirely ignored).  For many upstart jobs in
>> Ubuntu, we've chosen option 3.  Which do you think is the right solution?
>> Are there other options I haven't seen?
>
> Of those listed above, I'd agree with option 3 or some optimisation of it â??
> option 2, modified to do the migration at runtime if /etc /default/foo has
> been modified since last seen, would cover that, I think.

Do upstart jobs have an include directive?

MfG
        Goswin