* Re: [gentoo-dev] Providing a `service` scripts that speaks OpenRC and systemd
@ 2017-10-02 21:39 99% ` William Hubbs
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From: William Hubbs @ 2017-10-02 21:39 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev; +Cc: wizardedit
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 04:27:31PM -0500, Austin English wrote:
> (Note: serious discussion, please take systemd trolling elsewhere).
>
> While having the pleasure of working with some proprietary software
> recently, I was asked to run `service foo restart`, and was surprised to
> see:
> foobar ~ # service foo restart
> * service: service `foo' does not exist
You saw this because "service" is really rc-service. At some point in
the past, I was asked to add the "service" command to OpenRC, and all
it is is a synonym for rc-service.
> Since `systemctl restart foo` works, I had a workaround anyway.
>
> Talking with Whubbs about it, I found that our service script only
> supports OpenRC, via rc-service. I looked around, and from what I can
> tell, most distros ship a service tool for all supported init systems. I.e.,
> Debian/Ubuntu: supports sysvinit and systemd via init-system-helpers
> CentOS/Fedora: provides support for systemd via initscripts
> OpenSUSE: has a working service binary for systemd (according to #suse)
>
> I'd like to propose moving `service` out of OpenRC and into a separate
> package that OpenRC and systemd can both use. It's very possible that we
> could simply package/use another distro's scripts (I haven't evaluated
> that though).
I would support this. "service" should be a command, separate from any
service manager, that can be a wrapper for multiple service managers.
It isn't something that the service managers have to care about, it
would just be a convenience tool for users.
I can start setting up for this as soon as OpenRC 0.33 by removing the
service binary from OpenRC.
Thanks,
William
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