* Re: [gentoo-dev] Providing a `service` scripts that speaks OpenRC and systemd
@ 2017-09-29 3:29 99% ` Dale
0 siblings, 0 replies; 1+ results
From: Dale @ 2017-09-29 3:29 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1480 bytes --]
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
>
> 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 thought this was familiar. This was discussed not long ago and as far
as I can tell, nothing came of it.
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/9bd54475fc23b9c265984c5a91129710
Hope that link works, if not, this is the subject of the discussion.
"[openrc] [systemd] make `service` common for both OpenRC and SystemD
(like Debian/Ubuntu/whatever did)"
It has a few replies.
Dale
:-) :-) *
*
[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2055 bytes --]
^ permalink raw reply [relevance 99%]
Results 1-1 of 1 | reverse | options above
-- pct% links below jump to the message on this page, permalinks otherwise --
2017-09-28 21:27 [gentoo-dev] Providing a `service` scripts that speaks OpenRC and systemd Austin English
2017-09-29 3:29 99% ` Dale
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox