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Re: On init in Debian



On 30/03/12 08:18, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez 
> 
>> > On 20/03/12 07:14, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>>> > > FWIW, I have a proposal for a GSoC task this year to write a
>>> > > systemd-to-initscript converter,
>>> > > http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2012/Projects#SysV-init_file_creator_from_systemd_service_files
>>> > > 
>>> > > The systemd service files are covered by the «interface guarantee»,
>>> > > meaning they won't change incompatibly in a future release of systemd,
>>> > > so I think having that as the base format would be fairly reasonable,
>>> > > though probably just a subset so it's portable to other kernels and init
>>> > > systems.
>> > 
>> > And instead of this... why not simply improving metainit to support also
>> > systemd files?
> I doubt you'll get upstreams to write metainit files.  I think we'll
> have upstreams providing systemd files and so I think metainit will
> basically be #15 in http://xkcd.com/927/.

Good point.



What you think about extending this GSoC project to also implement the
translation from systemd unit files to upstart ones? it is worth ?

I am afraid that if everybody switches to systemd only ubuntu will
remain using upstart. And this weird canonical contributor agreement
don't makes thing easier for them

http://thepcspy.com/read/ubuntu-and-the-canonical-contributor-agreement/


Best Regards!

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