From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3035 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Sep 2003 21:43:35 -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 8774 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2003 21:43:35 -0000 Message-ID: <3F5E4986.8090204@kentonet.net> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:43:34 -0400 From: "Bryan D. Stine" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030909 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hallgrimur H. Gunnarsson" CC: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030909211112.GA20604@data.is> In-Reply-To: <20030909211112.GA20604@data.is> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.81.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD4120A3DFE6DFF3F7F307835" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE flag 'daemontools' as an alternative to init.d X-Archives-Salt: 5a566dfa-dad0-4733-8382-86159edc08cc X-Archives-Hash: 461279dd6ad453223d5ae1b2854497cc --------------enigD4120A3DFE6DFF3F7F307835 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit But doesn't daemontools itself use an initscript anyway? I suppose you just want this to be used in a way similar to how it works with qmail and djbdns? It's an interesting idea, but (excuse my ignorance on this) I don't really see what positive impact it will have on the system. Feel free to insult and enlighten me! 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 > > > > --------------enigD4120A3DFE6DFF3F7F307835 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/XkmG4Cdq/Vbot6MRAnmiAJoDhGyUtnhvK4qZDDSYfASkVi9/uQCfbBIK PEXlGKAzjNVxJU6GQ90lxDI= =Xweb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD4120A3DFE6DFF3F7F307835--