Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: openrc use flag

[Michał Górny]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:22:53 -0500
William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:02:41PM +0400, Peter Volkov wrote:
> > В Срд, 20/04/2011 в 12:24 -0500, William Hubbs пишет:
> > > The author of the bug feels that the way to fix this is for us to
> > > put a check in openrc that makes it refuse to run services if it
> > > was not used in the boot process.
> >
> > This is good idea to have in any case since I remember my system
> > went crazy after I've tried to start some service inside chroot.
>
> My concern about it though is prefix installs. If I implement
> something like this, will it not break openrc on prefix systems?

I'm attaching the patch I suggested to fix the issue.

It is based on the assumption that in order to run cleanly, OpenRC
needs to do some cleanup in ${RC_SVCDIR} (e.g. to mark all services
stopped). It assumes that the basic effect of a running OpenRC
is a determined runlevel stored in ${RC_SVCDIR}/softlevel file.

I tested that approach with clean OpenRC and systemd installs, and it
doesn't create any issues. I'd appreciate if someone with Prefix system
could test it as well.


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Best regards,
Michał Górny