Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > ]] Russ Allbery > > >> Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It > >> sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's > >> mail, is that getting the dependencies right to install systemd on > >> ini

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tollef Fog Heen > ]] Martin Pitt > > > Tollef Fog Heen [2014-10-21 19:19 +0200]: > > > > I would be particularly interested in your take on the analysis that > > > > Steve > > > > Langasek posted to the debian-devel thread on why listing systemd-shim > > > > as > > > > the first alternativ

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 07:19:32PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > An important detail is, that on upgrades, we keep the sysvinit package > installed, which ships /lib/sysvinit/init. This makes it very easy to > boot using sysvinit, even if systemd is the default /sbin/init. We > proposed a patch f

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-27 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:49:20PM -0700, Cameron Norman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:21:27PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > >> > "Josh" == Josh Triplett writes: > >> > >> Josh> - It can't check for generated lines for serial c

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 01:31:55PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > I would even go so far as to say that it's good that we're exposing these > > bugs now, during our release preparation process, so that they can be > > fixed prior to jessie. We need systemd-shim to work properly in jessie if > >

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martin Pitt > Tollef Fog Heen [2014-10-21 19:19 +0200]: > > > I would be particularly interested in your take on the analysis that Steve > > > Langasek posted to the debian-devel thread on why listing systemd-shim as > > > the first alternative dependency for libpam-systemd makes sense and sho

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-24 Thread Russ Allbery
I think you got bit by the Mail-Followup-To and your messages didn't make it to the CTTE bug. Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Russ Allbery >> Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It >> sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's >> mail, is t

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ian Jackson > Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on > upgrade for init system switch?"): > > Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It > > sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed b

Re: Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It > sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's > mail, is that getting the dependencies right to install systemd on > initial install but not upgrade to it are tricky and have a lot of

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-23 Thread Cameron Norman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:21:27PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> > "Josh" == Josh Triplett writes: >> >> Josh> - It can't check for generated lines for serial consoles or >> Josh> similar; finish-install can generate various addit

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-23 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:21:27PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Josh" == Josh Triplett writes: > > Josh> - It can't check for generated lines for serial consoles or > Josh> similar; finish-install can generate various additional > Josh> inittab lines, which the check should incl

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Josh" == Josh Triplett writes: Josh> - It can't check for generated lines for serial consoles or Josh> similar; finish-install can generate various additional Josh> inittab lines, which the check should include. Since when did systemd actually handle these correctly? I've gene

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Pitt
Tollef Fog Heen [2014-10-21 19:19 +0200]: > > I would be particularly interested in your take on the analysis that Steve > > Langasek posted to the debian-devel thread on why listing systemd-shim as > > the first alternative dependency for libpam-systemd makes sense and should > > not cause any neg

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Cameron Norman Please trim bits you're not replying to. > El mar, 21 de oct 2014 a las 10:19 , Tollef Fog Heen > escribió: > > ]] Russ Allbery > >> I would be particularly interested in your take on the analysis > >> that Steve Langasek posted to the debian-devel thread on why > >> listing

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Cameron Norman
El mar, 21 de oct 2014 a las 10:19 , Tollef Fog Heen escribió: ]] Russ Allbery Hello Russ, CTTE, Hello, systemd maintainers. We (the Technical Committee) have received a request to override a maintainer decision around whether systems are switched from sysvinit to systemd on upgrade. H

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Bdale Garbee writes ("Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > 4. So, if an existing installation has its init system switched, as a > > result of upgrading or of installing packages, that is a

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ian Jackson writes: > 2. Normally when Debian changes the default provider of some service, > this means that new installs get the new provider. We do not > transition existing installs to the new provider during upgrades, > unless the old provider is being removed. That's not stri

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It >> sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's >> mail, is that getting the dependencies right to install systemd on >> initial install but not upgrade to

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?"): > Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It > sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's > mail, is that

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Thanks, Tollef! Okay, so there does appear to be a conflict here. It sounds like your primary technical concern, not addressed by Martin's mail, is that getting the dependencies right to install systemd on initial install but not upgrade to it are tricky and have a lot of corner cases, and you fe

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery Hello Russ, CTTE, > Hello, systemd maintainers. > > We (the Technical Committee) have received a request to override a > maintainer decision around whether systems are switched from sysvinit to > systemd on upgrade. However, it's not clear to me that an actual decision > has bee

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:06:31 -0400 Martin Pitt wrote: > I'll leave this to the Debian maintainers, as I'm mostly responsible > for the Ubuntu side, haven't really discussed this with the two > Michaels/Tollef/Marco, and I don't feel qualified to speak for the > Debian systemd team. > > My persona

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi Ian, On 10/21/2014 05:44 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think the principle, of whether this switch should be made > automatic, ought to be addressed separately, and should be regarded as > a question of overlapping jurisdictions. We can't have different > maintainers fighting over init on users'

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?"): > If you're proposing this as a resolution of #765803, that's fine. I'm not sure I follow. You think it would be proper for the TC to pass a resolution

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Tollef Fog Heen claimed in > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=746578#134 > that there is consensus on debian-devel in favour of the switch. That was some time ago, and Martin has expressed a different opinion. I think the systemd team should have a chance

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?"): > This implies that we had decided not to change init systems on upgrade. I > don't believe that's correct. I didn't express an opinion on it one way >

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > I think it would be helpful to write this up as a resolution. How > about: > -8<- > 1. In February the TC decided that the default init system for Linux > in Debian jessie would be systemd. We have been asked what this > should mean for systems being upgraded f

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Bdale Garbee writes ("Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?"): > Russ Allbery writes: > > I think "default" is about what we install with fresh installs. > > That's consistent with the other examples you list,

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
Russ Allbery writes: > I think "default" is about what we install with fresh installs. > That's consistent with the other examples you list, where we've picked > a default. I agree. Bdale pgpbspOmI0C3L.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > I don't think the TC decision should be read as mandating that existing > installations should be switched when upgrading from wheezy. As I have > said, we (Debian) do not usually change the user's existing MTA, cron > daemon, webserver, desktop, inetd, etc. etc. etc. when

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-20 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Pitt writes ("Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?"): > My personal opinion: Given how close we are to the release and how > many regression reports we still get, it seems prudent to not change > the currently running init s

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-20 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Russ, Russ Allbery [2014-10-18 20:59 -0700]: > When one of you has a chance, could you update this bug with the current > thinking around how to handle upgrades I'll leave this to the Debian maintainers, as I'm mostly responsible for the Ubuntu side, haven't really discussed this with the t

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-20 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:10:10 +1100 Stuart Prescott wrote: > > inittab_unusual_lines="$( > > grep '^[^#]' /etc/inittab | > > while read line ; do > > case "$line" in > > 'id:2:initdefault:') ;; > [...] > > I wonder if it would just be easier to look at the md5sum of the fil

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-19 Thread Stuart Prescott
Hi Josh, > inittab_unusual_lines="$( > grep '^[^#]' /etc/inittab | > while read line ; do > case "$line" in > 'id:2:initdefault:') ;; [...] I wonder if it would just be easier to look at the md5sum of the file and compare it to the md5sum of the inittab that was shipped i

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-18 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 20:59:54 -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: > When one of you has a chance, could you update this bug with the current > thinking around how to handle upgrades, around the ordering of > dependencies in libpam-systemd, and some of the other ideas (such as > attempting to detect systems w

Bug#765803: Status of prompting / notification on upgrade for init system switch?

2014-10-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Hello, systemd maintainers. We (the Technical Committee) have received a request to override a maintainer decision around whether systems are switched from sysvinit to systemd on upgrade. However, it's not clear to me that an actual decision has been made that we would need to override. There ha