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On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> If I understand this all then systemd, in it's current state, is going |
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>> to require removing udev as a stand-along package, will remove |
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>> sysvinit as systemd provides /sbin/init, and will also replace OpenRC |
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>> with it's own code for starting and stopping services? It's a big |
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>> change but it's one of the reasons why I built the backup install on |
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>> the SSD. None of this really touches my spinning rust install I use |
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>> daily. |
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> I suggest you read the systemd docs. |
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I agree. Prior to Canek's previous email I wasn't giving this much |
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real though. With his response, your additional info and some study of |
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the docs I may try it later this week. |
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> Installing systemd will not |
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> remove sysvinit or openrc. However, after you change your kernel |
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> command line they will not be run as pid1 or as a service manager, and |
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> systemd has its own configuration for services. You can basically |
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> switch back and forth as long as you maintain your settings in |
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> parallel. |
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OK, that helps with the worry that something goes wrong and the whole |
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system is left unbootable. |
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> There is work to make it possible to use systemd without having openrc |
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> installed. The main issue right now is a few packages use functions |
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> in openrc which are not present in systemd, so that needs some |
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> refactoring. However, having them both installed in parallel doesn't |
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> really cost anything besides a few inodes (and not all that many). |
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> Rich |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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