Re: [GSoC Report] Week 4 - Systemd Unit Translator

[Benda Xu <heroxbd@gentoo.org>]

Hi K Gopal,

Such a list is important to your project.  Please keep it a regularly
updated list somewhere to reflect the progress of your project.

K Gopal Krishna <kayg@riseup.net> writes:

>  What does "special start" mean?  Could you show an example?
>
> Special start / stop functionality in, for example, `ifupdown-pre.service` which
> spawns a shell to run a small inline script referring some variables. This
> happens because the translator assumes there's always a `/path/to/binary
> --binary-args` format in [ExecStart].

So you can update the translator to deal with this case.

>  Please replace xinetd with socket-activate and try again:
>   https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/socket-activate.html
>
> Revised stats for Socket after letting socket-activate handle filesystem paths:
>
>   Tested: 6
>   Excluded: All explicit systemd-* units
>   Successfully starting: 5
>   Ratio: 0.83
>
> Failure patterns:
>
>   syslog.socket fails because it does not provide a service unit in
>   `/lib/systemd/system`

Very good.

Cheers,
Benda