On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 05:37:57PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 09, The Fungi <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > > > So I would assume this ITP is merely an outcome of that debian-devel > > discussion, > I think that the outcome of that discussion was that openrc would be too > little too late for Debian, and that it is proven that trying to support > well multiple init implementations does not work.
In the case of OpenRC, it has the potential to be a drop-in replacement for sysv-rc (note that it uses base sysvinit still underneath that). With the work that Benda Xu has done to make OpenRC work with LSB init scripts, it can now run standard Debian init scripts. There's work going on in openrc upstream to allow introspection of OpenRC dependencies dynamically (it's possible now, but without a standard interface). This will potentially let insserv and other tools (systemd etc.) add support for integrating OpenRC dependencies into their normal operation. The first allows a migration path to using OpenRC; the latter allows a migration path from LSB to OpenRC scripts. Working on getting OpenRC to work on Debian is not without value. For me, the entire point of the exercise is to explore the feasability to port it and evaluate it as an alternative/replacement for sysv-rc; this is almost completely orthogonal to work on systemd/upstart, which will for the most part be unaffected by this. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120809230132.gb25...@codelibre.net
