Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-systemd-only deprecation

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 12:53 PM,  <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> > Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Pavel Volkov <negaipub@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Pavel Volkov <negaipub@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sunday 28 July 2013 03:22:02 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> >> >> > Therefore, as of today, anyone can have a Gentoo machine with only
> >> >> > systemd, with no OpenRC installed.
> >> >>
> >> >> Really? Bug 373219 is still open.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, I missed your explanation at the end about that one. Ok, thanks for
> >> > what you've done :)
> >>
> >> Mmmh, and I missed this last reply of you.
> >>
> >> Anyway, dealing with /etc/init.d/functions.sh is basically trivial.
> >
> > But still, we have lots of packages with no systemd units -- shouldn't
> > they all have a systemd use flag and units to go with it -- basically
> > anything which has something in /etc/init.d .  I was looking for a
> > sendmail unit and could find nothing, for one example.
> 
> Yeah, we are not even near 100% coverage. However, one of the many
> advantages of systemd is that a service unit from a distribution
> usually works as-is or with minimal changes in any other.
> 
> For many basic unit files, you can go to
> 
> https://github.com/vonSchlotzkow/systemd-gentoo-units
> 
> It has a unit file  for postfix, for example. If the one you are
> looking for is not there, you can search in other distributions. If
> you download the RPM from
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/21317874/dir/fedora_19/com/sendmail-8.14.7-1.fc19.i686.rpm.html,
> and extract the files with rpm2tarbz2, then you can get the
> sendmail.service file.
> 
> It will probably need some changes to work with Gentoo, but it should
> not be difficult.
> 
> When is working, you can send your unit to the package maintainer in
> Gentoo, and at some point it could be included in the package (like
> the OpenRC init script).
> 
> That's how we will get 100% coverage, eventually.

OK, I will check those -- thanks.  I hope package maintainers now start
putting those service units in, now that systemd is required by gnome.


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