[gentoo-soc] Upstart on Gentoo report #4

[gentoo-soc] Upstart on Gentoo report #4

[Oliver Schinagl]

So things are definably speeding up, though last weeks Midterm
evaluation was quite the bump in the road.

That aside, this week I'll be trying a new approach temporary, see if I
can take a shortcut. I'll see how much effort it would be, and
experiment a little on trying to get upstart to boot all of our OpenRC
scripts using upstart. There'll be some glue code needed, or glue
scripts but I think this may work quite well and cut dev time
drastically to get something working. Even though being one of those
developers that doesn't want to release anything before it's perfect, I
do completly agree with 'release early, and release often' So if this
shortcut gets us a working upstart system quickly, it'll be well worth it.

Also, i'll be going on vacation Saturday! I'll be online and everything
from there, it's more visiting family, but I do quite look forward to
coding up in the sunny mountains of austria whilst having a nice
conversation with my Grandmother who I only get to see once a year (if
i'm lucky). So nothing will change in regard to GSoC, though I will be
afk whilst driving (no mobile internet).

Until next week, with a new update!

[gentoo-soc] Upstart on Gentoo report #4.5

[Oliver Schinagl]

A small midweek update.

I've created a short video, that shows Gentoo booting using upstart. The
video starts with the regular Gentoo init running and shows ldd outputs
of the 2 inits, /usr/local/sbin/init is upstarts init, /sbin/init is the
sysvinit launching openrc.

A reboot follows then booting into Single mode using upstart!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4FpSb9kJVo

Oliver

[gentoo-soc] Re: Upstart on Gentoo report #4.6

[Oliver Schinagl]

This probably is just insignificant, but this desktop recording software
is quite neat. I was playing around with upstart some more today and got
it to boot a lot more service. Well upstart kicked off openrc to do the
starting. So I decide it to record it and post it. Seeing is believing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RbSYHzadtw

I won't post anymore video's like a proud daddy and his new videocamera
but if there's more exciting video's i'll upload them to youtube again,
so feel free to subscribe to http://www.youtube.com/user/oliverschinagl
or occasionally check as I won't be posting 'look at this video' report :)

Oliver