You could always lift scripts from Wheezy and use them as a template. On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Miles Fidelman <[email protected]> wrote:
> T.J. Duchene wrote: > >> >> >> On 08/07/2015 09:31 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> >>> >>> Trivial as in, somebody has to do it. The whole point of packaging is >>> to automate a lot of the routine things involved in installation. >>> >>> And, because Debian (and presumeably Devuan) don't put stuff in default >>> locations, packaging involves changing the default locations of things. >>> >>> Where this leads is that down the road, we either need a full set of >>> Devuan-specific package maintainers, or everybody is back to compiling and >>> installing from upstream source. >>> >>> Miles Fidelman >>> >>> >> Good evening, Miles! =) >> > > Good morning T.J. ! > >> >> If I might offer an opinion, I do not think that the situation is quite >> that dire. The packages that require init scripts are a tiny fraction of >> the entire repository. For the moment, the scripts Devuan needs are still >> in the Debian archives as Jesse has System 5 support. >> >> Devuan can just replicate them and support them moving forward. >> >> > Well, maybe. The original poster started with the statement "Currently > Debian packages contains both systemd units and init scripts. However, > Debian developers refused to support several init systems. So it's only a > matter of time when they remove init scripts from packages." If that's > true, then we have problem. > > My sense is that systemd is having close to zero effect on upstream code - > most stuff is shipping with traditional sysv init scripts, with some folks > adding systemd units, but most basically ignoring systemd. > > If the Debian packagers do what makes sense - i.e., simply tweak sysv init > scripts that come from upstream, and rely on systemd's support for init > scripts, then all is copacetic. > > If, instead, they start removing the sysv scripts, and including homebrew > systemd units - then we're in for a mess of rework. > > Miles > > > > -- > In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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