Hi Petter, Hi Bryan, I’m joining the conversation here, hence the full-quotes:
Am Montag, den 05.12.2011, 11:52 +0000 schrieb Bryan Hunt: On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:14:09 +0100, Joachim Breitner <[email protected]> wrote: > Non-text part: multipart/signed > > The usual way to submit patches, as well as bug reports and feature > > requests, is via the Debian bugtracker at http://bugs.debian.org/ or, a > > bit more conveniently, with the command line tool "reportbug" in the > > package of the same name. > > > > About metainit: Note that this is a project of mine that did not take > > off. I started it in the summer of 2007 and saw a few minor updates, but > > was never properly used either in Debian or, as far as I know, outside > > of it, and I stopped working on it 3 years ago. By now, with the advent > > of systemd, I might have done it differently, e.g. make it read systemd > > unit files and implement them as SysV init services. > > > > Keep that in mind, but if you find that it provides you with what you > > need, then by all means do use it. I’m certainly happy that it is useful > > to someone after all. > > It's a usefull project, seems to have rough edges and it didn't provide > a status command which is a bit of an omission. > > I think it probably just needs better publicity, blogging etc. > > Are you a Haskel programmer? What would be really cool would be the init > script equivalent of pandoc. > > Just define, like current, your service command line and have all the > system specific boilerplate generated by metainit. > > Are you going to add my patch to the deb, so I don't have to patch it > locally? Am Montag, den 05.12.2011, 00:30 +0100 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen: > Package: metainit > Version: 0.0.5 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi. Thanks to your blog post, I just had a closer look at metainit, and > it occured to me that it would be cleaner if the generated init.d > scripts sourced a common file for the common code. Here is a draft > patch implementing this, while also fixing a bug in the handling of the > post-stop hook. > > The generated script still lack reload and status support. I guess both > should be added eventually. it seems that the blog advertising, as Bryan prognosed, helped to raise some interest. Of course I can apply Bryan’s patch if it helps him. Otherwise, I’m a bit reluctant to re-start development and, e.g., review and apply Petter’s patch, mostly because I’m not interested enough in the issue of init scripts at the moment to maintain it properly, and because maintaining it makes only sense if there is a chance of further adoption. If one of you thinks that metainit should be continued to be developed, maybe one of you can step up at the maintainer? Of if you also don’t find the time, maybe you find someone how does :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [email protected] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [email protected] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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