From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19389 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Sep 2003 21:34:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24984 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2003 21:34:38 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:16:51 -0700 From: Matt Thrailkill To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030909141651.3cfe58a4.xwred1@xwredwing.net> In-Reply-To: <20030909211112.GA20604@data.is> References: <20030909211112.GA20604@data.is> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flag 'daemontools' as an alternative to init.d X-Archives-Salt: ce21b905-497f-4848-8abf-fdd9e2db3970 X-Archives-Hash: 8d62323dbbfc7d7c2f7b26a7f2ea0fac Is this effectively a new system of init-scripts? If so.. I think it'd be cool to write some bsd-style init-scripts to add to the variety. On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 21:11:12 +0000 "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" wrote: > Hello friends ! > > I'd like to propose a new USE flag. > > On my systems I've added a 'daemontools' USE flag > as an alternative to the current init.d for > service management. To be a true metadistribution, > it doesn't seem fair to let init.d have a monopoly > on providing service management for packages. > > For those who haven't heard of it before, daemontools > is a process supervisor that can manage services. > For more information see http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html > > Integration of this functionality into ebuilds is in > most cases very trivial. Packages that wish to > provide daemontools USE flag support provide > a 'run' file, that is copied to a service directory, > /etc/daemontools/servicename, or something in that > direction. We could even have some automated facility > for preparing service directories. > > People can then choose what to use for running a particular > service, /etc/init.d or linking the service directory into > /service if the package provides daemontools support. > > I've opened a bug for this (#28294), so what do people > think of this? > > -- hhg > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list