Re: systemd .service file conversion
On 05/28/2013 02:37 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:13:44AM +0200, Ond??ej Surý wrote:
>> I would be quite happy to write service files for two (systemd, upstart) or
>> three (systemd, upstart, openrc) of those in all my packages[*], if it
>> stops the endless flamewar here. I would also be happy to have the
>> requirement to support two (or three) of them in the Debian policy.
>
> My major point here was precisely that you are *not* done with just
> writing the service/job descriptions/scripts for all those init systems.
> You'd likely have to patch every single daemon to enable the socket
> activation method for those init systems, that the authors of your
> daemon did not like to use.
>
> If on the other hand you omit this patching, then that init system
> partially loses one of its selling points. So instead of supporting one
> init system properly, we support four init systems poorly.
Just to make sure I understood.
What selling point are you talking about? Why is it necessary to patch
daemons to have socket activation?
Thomas
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