Re: [gentoo-dev] Changing order of default virtual/udev provider

[Patrick Lauer]

On 02/09/2016 01:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> And a lot of Gentoo is surprisingly simple: Like our use of bash
>> scripts for recipies to build things, like using rsync to deploy/relay
>> not just those recipies, but security notices and  news items, which
>> are themselves reasonably simple formats.
> Well, one thing about Gentoo that certainly isn't simple is our init.d scripts.
>
> Compare this:
> http://pastebin.com/sSDtpF4t
More stable link:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/apache.git/tree/2.4/init/apache2.initd
>
> With this:
> http://pastebin.com/Lfn8r7qP
More stable link:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-servers/apache/files/apache2.2.service
> Systemd does the job in 10% of the code (and half of it is a comment),
> and doesn't implement its own service polling and killer script during
> shutdown independently for every service (not that every init.d script
> even does this - most of them will just leave orphans behind, and
> systemd will catch orphans that even the lengthy init.d script for
> apache misses).
>
Right, that's a bad comparison.

The equivalent OpenRC init script is:

```
#!/sbin/runscript
command="/usr/sbin/apache2"
command_args="${APACHE2_OPTS}"
description_reload="A graceful restart advises the children to exit
after the current request and reloads the configuration."

stop() {
    $command $APACHE2_OPTS -k graceful-stop
}
reload() {
    $command $APACHE2_OPTS -k graceful
}
```
So that's almost exactly the same (modulo braces and newlines). There's
no equivalent for PrivateTmp, and we ignore the extra data in
/etc/tmpfiles.d (for creating runtime dirs). Which is bad, but that's
another rant ;)

Just that the current initscript does a lot more, and ... uhm ... why is
the systemd unit sourcing /etc/conf.d/apache2 ?
(Oh, and dependencies, but those just slow down startup <trollface/>)

So if you compile the equivalent naive init script there's not much
difference, and the initial argument falls on its face and disappears.

I'm getting tired of having this argument :)