Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:23:02 +, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > It didn't start because the service unit was wrong. > > A quick check of the log revealed that the service was trying to create > a local-domain socket at |/run/lirc/lircd| . But there was no > |/run/lirc/| directory on my sys

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-17 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: It didn't start because the service unit was wrong. A quick check of the log revealed that the service was trying to create a local-domain socket at |/run/lirc/lircd| . But there was no |/run/lirc/| directory on my system to contain that. Your systemd units didn'

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-17 Thread Alec Leamas
Hi! Thansk for long reply! On 17/01/16 03:23, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: Michael Biebl: I wonder if nosh could be an option for non-linux. According to its website it supports native systemd service files. This caught my eye, so I thought that I'd demonstrate. Before getting to what

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-16 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Michael Biebl: I wonder if nosh could be an option for non-linux. According to its website it supports native systemd service files. I have to admit though, I never looked at nosh myself, so I have no idea how far that "systemd support" goes. This caught my eye, so I thought that I'd demonst

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-16 Thread Alec Leamas
On 15/01/16 21:58, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: Hi On 2016-01-15, Alec Leamas wrote: On 15/01/16 21:06, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.01.2016 um 21:01 schrieb Alec Leamas: On 15/01/16 19:04, Russ Allbery wrote: [...] If the names do not match, you can ship a (static) symlink in the package,

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:07:11AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > It's not only about downstreams. What about e.g. Debian-kFreeBSD, or > Debian-Hurd? Debian/kFreeBSD is a supported architecture, but Debian-Hurd is currently unofficial.

Re: Favoring systemd timers over cron files Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-16 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Le vendredi 15 janvier 2016, 21:58:18 Anthony DeRobertis a écrit : > On 01/15/2016 09:29 PM, Jens Reyer wrote: > > Does this also work somehow for e.g. foo-daily.service + > > foo-daily.timer being favored over /etc/cron.daily/foo? Next to a > > foo.service being favored over /etc/init.d/foo. Tha

Re: Favoring systemd timers over cron files Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 01/15/2016 09:29 PM, Jens Reyer wrote: Does this also work somehow for e.g. foo-daily.service + foo-daily.timer being favored over /etc/cron.daily/foo? Next to a foo.service being favored over /etc/init.d/foo. Thanks and greets jre No, it won't work automatically. Cron doesn't look at syst

Favoring systemd timers over cron files Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Jens Reyer
On 01/15/2016 09:06 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > If your package ships both a systemd service unit and a sysv init > script, you need to make sure that under systemd the native service file > is used. > The easiest way to achieve that is to use the same names for the unit > file and the init script,

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Wookey
+++ Russ Allbery [2016-01-15 10:04 -0800]: > Alec Leamas writes: > > > Given all this: would it be OK to drop the sysV files in a stretch > > update? Please don't. Some people still use sysVinit and expect things to work more-or-less as they did previously. > I feel like removing the sysvinit

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.01.2016 um 21:56 schrieb Michael Biebl: > An example for that is alsa-utils: > The sysv init script is named > > /etc/init.d/alsa-utils > > The systemd service units: > /lib/systemd/system/alsa-store.service > /lib/systemd/system/alsa-state.service > /lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On 2016-01-15, Alec Leamas wrote: > On 15/01/16 21:06, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 15.01.2016 um 21:01 schrieb Alec Leamas: > >> On 15/01/16 19:04, Russ Allbery wrote: [...] > > If the names do not match, you can ship a (static) symlink in the > > package, say you have > > /etc/init.d/foo a

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.01.2016 um 21:48 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Hi Alec > > Am 15.01.2016 um 21:42 schrieb Alec Leamas: >> It's more complicated. The systemd setup is three different services, >> the sysV one. There is no systemd service directly corresponding to >> the sysV one. In other words, here is two th

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Alec Am 15.01.2016 um 21:42 schrieb Alec Leamas: > It's more complicated. The systemd setup is three different services, > the sysV one. There is no systemd service directly corresponding to > the sysV one. In other words, here is two things taking place at once: > a major upgrade + sysV ->

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On 2016-01-15, Alec Leamas wrote: > On 15/01/16 19:04, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > I feel like removing the sysvinit scripts entirely would be "reverting > > existing support without a compelling reason." But I also think that > > people who want to use sysvinit (or upstart, or any other init

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Alec Leamas
On 15/01/16 21:06, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 15.01.2016 um 21:01 schrieb Alec Leamas: On 15/01/16 19:04, Russ Allbery wrote: I feel like removing the sysvinit scripts entirely would be "reverting existing support without a compelling reason." But I also think that people who want to use sysvini

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.01.2016 um 21:01 schrieb Alec Leamas: > On 15/01/16 19:04, Russ Allbery wrote: >> >> I feel like removing the sysvinit scripts entirely would be "reverting >> existing support without a compelling reason." But I also think that >> people who want to use sysvinit (or upstart, or any other ini

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Alec Leamas
On 15/01/16 19:04, Russ Allbery wrote: I feel like removing the sysvinit scripts entirely would be "reverting existing support without a compelling reason." But I also think that people who want to use sysvinit (or upstart, or any other init system) will have to contribute some support there in

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.01.2016 um 16:07 schrieb The Wanderer: > It's not only about downstreams. What about e.g. Debian-kFreeBSD, or > Debian-Hurd? Both are theoretically official Debian, as far as I > understand matters, rather than being downstream distros - but neither > one is supported by systemd. I wonder if

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Alec Leamas writes: > In the process of a complicated update, there is a question about how to > handle the systemV init scripts when doing the systemd transition. > The package (lirc) has upstream systemd scripts which of course are > packaged. The existing Debian version has sysV scripts. Howe

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 03:45:30PM +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: > Support for users not using systemd. I understand that such users will be > unhappy without the scripts - but am I obliged under current policy > decisions to maintain this configuration? Up until the next stable release at least, you

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-01-15 at 09:45, Alec Leamas wrote: > On 15/01/16 14:13, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: > >> Alec Leamas writes: >> >>> Dear list, >>> Given all this: would it be OK to drop the sysV files in a >>> stretch update? >> >> I suppose it's not okay, because you'll get a lot of bug reports >> from no

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Alec Leamas
On 15/01/16 14:13, Dmitrii Kashin wrote: Alec Leamas writes: Dear list, Given all this: would it be OK to drop the sysV files in a stretch update? I suppose it's not okay, because you'll get a lot of bug reports from non-linux based debian distributions. And if it's not your business, an

Re: Removing sysV init files

2016-01-15 Thread Dmitrii Kashin
Alec Leamas writes: > Dear list, > > In the process of a complicated update, there is a question about how > to handle the systemV init scripts when doing the systemd transition. > > The package (lirc) has upstream systemd scripts which of course are > packaged. The existing Debian version has sy