From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MF6iN-0004CN-O4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:22:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C161BE05BE; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B12E05BE for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449EE663BF for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:22:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.483 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.483 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.049, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NMVr2oYGFGwM for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:22:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E4364DFF for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MF6ha-0005vU-St for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:50 +0000 Received: from 91.85.175.191 ([91.85.175.191]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:50 +0000 Received: from slong by 91.85.175.191 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:50 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steven J Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Baselayout2/OpenRC init.d Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:20:09 +0100 Organization: Friendly-Coders Message-ID: <1773945.3rMmyxF7RA@news.friendly-coders.info> References: <20090607195950.GI22927@orbis-terrarum.net> <200906080941.27411.vapier@gentoo.org> <4A2D1977.8050401@marples.name> <200906081028.17308.vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.85.175.191 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 582b6640-0948-430c-aa30-991515edba8a X-Archives-Hash: de27703a74d7cf394239f94a4b025f70 Mike Frysinger wrote: > Roy Marples wrote: >> You would have to ask the VServer team, but my understanding was they >> needed to detect version of OpenRC in a container from the host before >> the container is started. > > if systems need crazy restrictions, It sounded quite simple: no execution of anything; and has clearly been established as a requirement earlier in the process. > the original issue can be handled via sbin/functions.sh (unless someone > has a reason why not) I can see an advantage to having it in a text file, since it can be checked at any point in the startup, or before in this case, at the discretion of the distro or administrator. Where is the advantage in forcing it to be part of a shellscript? This is very similar to /etc/gentoo-release, so it's not like it's some new-fangled "crazy" idea imo. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)