Re: [gentoo-soc] (draft) final report for OpenRC soc project 2012

[Luca Barbato]

On 8/22/12 4:04 AM, heroxbd@×××××.com wrote:
> Dear Luca,
>
> Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> writes:
>
>> On 8/21/12 4:07 PM, heroxbd@×××××.com wrote:
>>> For monitoring against OOM http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Monit
>>
>> So monit could be integrated in openrc easily ?
>
> In the way of runit, yes.
>
>>> cron/at is too general to document, there is one at
>>>
>>>     http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cron-guide.xml
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> :)
>
>>> upstart is designed to replace cron
>>>
>>>     http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/ReplaceCron
>>>
>>> systemd recommends to replace cron
>>>
>>>     http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Optimizations
>>>
>>> while OpenRC just work with it. For some fancy new feature to be used on
>>> non-servers, like "run every 5 minutes after start up", fcron can be
>>> used.
>>
>> Not sure exactly what should we add here.
>
> The feature of cron-like feature in systemd is limited, while in upstart
> they just replace cron for "cleanness" and integration. I don't think
> there is a special task OpenRC/cron can't do.
>
>>> A stub page is below. Still thinking of how to present it. May be we can
>>> just load it with examples which covers all the cases upstart being
>>> proud of.
>>>
>>>      http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/Event_Driven
>>
>> Yes, might be a good approach.
>
> New examples welcome ;) How would gentoo deal with udev is still
> unclear, while I think we can document the present udev features. udev
> merge with systemd is not a big threat, is it?

Replacing udev-systemd with udev is probably yet another huge project, 
hopefully somebody would help.

meanwhile we have some people using mdev to their satisfaction.

lu