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Hey guys and gals, |
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reports for the scheduled in the last week: |
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ON-GOING 1. kill bugs for openrc |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=openrc&list_id=1113873 |
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ON-GOING 1.1 bug 413267 |
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reproduced on my box, investigating the built in "single" |
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runlevel. |
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TODO 1.2 bug 409829 |
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ON-GOING 2. evaluate other rc systems (in order) |
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DONE 2.0 smf (Openindiana) |
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2.0.1 updated in |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC |
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later mgorny created a page for general comparison, |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems |
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Further evaluations will go to the new page. Old page needs |
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to be cleaned up. |
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TODO 2.1 launchd (Mac OS X) |
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ON-GOING 2.2 upstart (Ubuntu) |
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as well as trying Gentoo Prefix on top of it (there has |
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been a big block for Prefix on Ubuntu, cf. bug |
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400839). and chaining openrc from upstart. |
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EXTRA NOTE 3. found another thread for introducing OpenRC to |
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debian[1] |
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3.1 in the reply by rra@debian[2], there are really what we are |
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missing in openrc (ecosystem). |
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3.2 rleigh@debian seems to represent the thinking of debian |
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community towards init system[3]: they don't like systemd |
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way of integrating everything. But they really need some |
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event-driven mechanism, which is not well defined by OpenRC |
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(yet). |
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3.3 talked with rleigh via irc, conveying (as patrick did) we are |
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eager to take ideas from debian, and impove OpenRC to suite |
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debian's need provided it's of general interest. And I am |
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eager to put my effort to carry ideas into reality. |
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3.4 discussed with patrick in #openrc considering the thread, and |
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agreed upon that we can extend OpenRC with some simple |
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helper scripts (event-driven, crash restart/statistics, |
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dbus-like API for triggers from outside) and kernel specific |
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hooks on top of the present OpenRC core. Changing OpenRC |
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itself to make a fancy feature (or fanboy's paradigm) is not |
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good practice. |
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In the next step, to improve OpenRC with recent ideas of init system, I |
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am thinking of packaging OpenRC in debian and let it work out of box |
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(maybe the LSB thing is the major block instead) as a practical measure |
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of the usefulness of new features I would have introduced. (I myself is |
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an old debian user for 8 years, therefore motivated to do so). |
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rleigh and rra, could you please be my mentor for the packaging? |
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Schedules for 6.25-7.1 |
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1. evaluating launchd, and finish upstart |
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2. the openrc single/reboot built runlevel switching bug |
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3. try to have a piece of script to prove my concept for using |
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openrc as a "event-driven" init system. try to work with |
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rleigh@debian (rra@debian), as they know what are really |
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needed. and synchronize with openrc herd. |
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Cheers, |
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Benda |
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1. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/171695 |
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2. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/171786 |
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3. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/171897 |
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