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On 2013-03-22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 7:45 PM, João Matos <jaoneto@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi list, |
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>> do you know some guide to switch form systemd to openrc, or keep both? I |
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>> googled and I didn't find. |
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>> The motivation is that I'm studing many server stuff, and I'm tired of |
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>> search for alternatives to systemd (that is really good). I also set up some |
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>> servers, using openrc on them, so, sometimes I like to reproduce the |
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>> configuration o my machine. |
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>> If possible, I prefer to keep both. If not, I'll switch back to openrc. |
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>> I've enable the openrc user flag, updated the system, I created a grub |
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>> entrace, and everything seems to work pretty well on openrc, but I cant |
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>> start the X. "no screens found", but dbus, udev and consolekit are started |
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>> without error. |
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>> Everything is working with systemd. |
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> For "server stuff", you should have no problem. If the machine where |
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> you want to have both systemd and OpenRC also works as a desktop |
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> workstation, right now that is not possible; there are several desktop |
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> packages that cannot decide at run time if they use systemd (actually, |
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> logind) or ConsoleKit (polkit being the most obvious). |
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Are these packages essential or the like? I don't think my desktop |
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systems have dependencies either on systemd or polkit/consolekit. |
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What is logind used for? |
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> So you'll need to remove the systemd USE flag, add the consolekit one, |
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> and recompile the necessary packages to get back to a systemd-less |
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> desktop. Be aware that ConsoleKit is basically dead; it has no |
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> upstream, no new features are being developed for it, and I don't |
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> think even basic security bugs are actively fixed. Everything that |
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> depended on ConsoleKit has switched or is considering switching to |
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> logind, which right now is provided only by systemd (Canonical is |
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> working in an alternative implementation, and I believe some *BSD guys |
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> were also looking into the matter). |
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> When the logind alternative implementations are ready, maybe it will |
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> be possible to again boot to both OpenRC and systemd with the same |
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> binaries; right now is not possible. |
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> Regards. |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/ |
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