On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:23:57 +0800 Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote: > On 03/17/2012 08:10 AM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > > Right now, creating a init script means copying an ugly 159-line > > skeleton and carefully editing it, hoping not to break anything > > while at it. Even if we can't have a single generator for multiple > > init systems, having something declarative to build most init > > scripts we need would be a big step forward and it would make a lot > > of sense as well in a future where we may need to support multiple > > init systems. > some others to review my work. The ultimate goal would be that > packages would simply need to do something like: > > NAME=package-binary-file > DESC="package daemon description" If you are planning to generate these out of systemd/upstart configs, both provide a description field, but I don't see a name field from either. http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html http://linux.die.net/man/5/init > [ -e . /usr/share/sysv-lib/debsysv-lib ] && debsysv-init-lib $@ > > That's (in best cases) only 3 lines, (plus the lsb-base header)... > Of course, in many cases, we need a bit more, this could be > implemented with things like START_OPTS / STOP_OPTS and > so on, and maybe some hooks for start/stop functions. Hopefully there is some way to know (as a user) that a service doesn't support restart (or some other arbitrary target). Services that silently fail to (re)start are rather annoying.... thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK7FOSS) http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group *** I've changed GPG key to 6C097260 ***
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