Bug#727708: systemd vs. binfmt-support

2013-12-26 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:49:11AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > As I explain in the bug [1], I think that the facilities provided by > > binfmt-support are objectively superior; and even if they were broadly > > equivalent, I'd still question the utility of converting packages from > > an inte

Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 03:56:04PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > > > But this should be safe for instance units, so I'd like to see > > 'systemctl stop/status/... server@*.service' implemented. > > That would be very useful for distribution packagers. If, fo

Bug#727708: [PATCH] systemctl: allow globbing in commands which take multiple unit names

2013-12-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 09:41:42PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 26.12.13 10:09, Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) wrote: > > What I've switched to instead is using tiny enums for this purpose. So: > > > > enum mangle_type { > > MANGLE_NOGLOB = 0, > > MANGLE_GLOB =

Bug#727708: [PATCH] systemctl: allow globbing in commands which take multiple unit names

2013-12-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 06:49:31PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Looks good. But maybe an additional warning should be printed if people > use globs on the "systemctl start" command line? Some shorter version of > the blurb you added to the man page? i am pretty sure people will run > into thi

Bug#727708: [PATCH] systemctl: allow globbing in commands which take multiple unit names

2013-12-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 26.12.13 10:09, Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) wrote: > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > > > As discussed on IRC, here's a patch which takes the simple approach of > > allowing globbing on loaded unit names in various (almost all :)) systemctl > > commands. Comments? > > I don't

Bug#727708: [PATCH] systemctl: allow globbing in commands which take multiple unit names

2013-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > As discussed on IRC, here's a patch which takes the simple approach of > allowing globbing on loaded unit names in various (almost all :)) systemctl > commands. Comments? I don't know the coding style of systemd, so please feel free to ignore this comment if

Bug#727708: [PATCH] systemctl: allow globbing in commands which take multiple unit names

2013-12-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 26.12.13 17:39, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote: > As discussed on IRC, here's a patch which takes the simple approach of > allowing globbing on loaded unit names in various (almost all :)) systemctl > commands. Comments? Looks good. But maybe an additional warning s

Bug#727708: [PATCH] systemctl: allow globbing in commands which take multiple unit names

2013-12-26 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
As discussed on IRC, here's a patch which takes the simple approach of allowing globbing on loaded unit names in various (almost all :)) systemctl commands. Comments? (There were some preperatory patches which I'm not posting here. Please fetch from http://kawka.in.waw.pl/git/systemd/commit/16a416

Re: Bug#727708: systemd vs. binfmt-support

2013-12-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Colin Watson > As I explain in the bug [1], I think that the facilities provided by > binfmt-support are objectively superior; and even if they were broadly > equivalent, I'd still question the utility of converting packages from > an interface that's been well-established in Debian for over t