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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:50:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_mVzpTokhEVPuhp_p86DZHkr1j5rAoG1wopQiRKcWE3Sg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOdo=SypcgJqvPAU45qOcCowEV4aF5BMKaRBuiJZDBebwwGjBA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since Gentoo's rpcbind.service has "Wants=rpcbind.target" and
> "Before=rpcbind.target"", having nfs-server.service depend on
> rpcbind.target rather than rpcbind.service should work as long as
> rpcbind.service is enabled.
>
> But having "Requires=rpcbind.service" and "After=rpcbind.service",
> like nfsd.service has/had, means that you don't have to enable
> rpcbind.service.
>

I was just looking at that and thinking the same thing.  Nothing is
really forcing rpcbind to load the way things are specified right now.
If a service really requires another service to operate, it should say
that.  There is no problem doing that via a target, but then the
target still needs to pull it in.

There seems a general tendency in systemd to express dependencies as
"after" instead of "requires."  That is fine if the service doesn't
really require something else, but if there really is a true
dependency then it just causes problems when somebody doesn't notice
and fails to enable the other unit.

--
Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-27 19:38 [gentoo-user] [~amd64] NFS server broken again :( walt
2014-10-27 19:56 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-10-27 23:46   ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2014-10-28  1:05     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2014-10-28  2:49     ` Tom H
2014-10-28  3:22       ` Tom H
2014-10-28 22:18         ` walt
2014-10-29  1:36           ` Tom H
2014-10-29  1:50             ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2014-10-31 17:34               ` Tom H
2014-10-31 18:27                 ` Rich Freeman
2014-10-31 23:01                   ` Tom H
2014-10-31 23:52                     ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-03  1:37                       ` Tom H
2014-11-03  3:47                         ` Rich Freeman
2014-11-01  3:18                     ` Jc García
2014-10-28  0:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Tom H

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