Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-12-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019 10:13:01 +0100 Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > Dear All, > > Inits need to understand unit files, give them that functionality. > That is far more efficient compared to what you are doing. > > Pseudo Code: > 1) check for the presence of a unit file > 2) if it exists > a)

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-12-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 09:02:14 +0100 Denis Roio wrote: > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Massimo Coppola wrote: > > > > > > > > If (assuming that) we are going to lose the source of init scripts > > > upstream, then it's the only way

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-12-03 Thread Dimitris via Dng
On 12/3/19 10:02 AM, Denis Roio wrote: > My opinion however is this: maintaining a *unique package* of version > controlled init scripts in Devuan is much, much easier than > maintaining a sysvinit script in each different package, forking it. > > I'm not sure about pressing counter-arguments

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-12-03 Thread Denis Roio
On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Massimo Coppola wrote: > > > > > If (assuming that) we are going to lose the source of init scripts > > upstream, then it's the only way forward. (For those who consider > > recognizing the unit files as a

[DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-12-02 Thread Edward Bartolo via Dng
Dear All, Inits need to understand unit files, give them that functionality. That is far more efficient compared to what you are doing. Pseudo Code: 1) check for the presence of a unit file 2) if it exists a) branch to function to read unit file and run daemon b) if NOT execute shell script to

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-11-30 Thread golinux
On 2019-11-30 14:15, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Massimo Coppola wrote: If (assuming that) we are going to lose the source of init scripts upstream, then it's the only way forward. (For those who consider recognizing the unit files as a valid source a

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-11-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Massimo Coppola wrote: > > If (assuming that) we are going to lose the source of init scripts upstream, > then it's the only way forward. > (For those who consider recognizing the unit files as a valid source a > defeat: I may agree with you, but

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-11-29 Thread Massimo Coppola
Hi all, long time as a silent lurker, but is seems well time to get up and act. Although today I'm just about writing about doing, so feel free to ignore me. English is not my first language, so if I use inappropriate writing tone, I apologize now and please let me know about my errors. The

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-11-29 Thread s
On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 12:15:29 +0100 Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 29/11/2019 à 02:08, s@po a écrit : > > freedesktop.org, should adress the situation, > >     I don't trust Freedesktop to produce a good quality standard. I > don't know who are the people behind Freedesktop, beyond Gnome and KDE, >

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-11-29 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 29/11/2019 à 02:08, s@po a écrit : freedesktop.org, should adress the situation,     I don't trust Freedesktop to produce a good quality standard. I don't know who are the people behind Freedesktop, beyond Gnome and KDE, but they have produced Dbus and also the practice to automatically

Re: [DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-11-28 Thread s
Hello All, On Thu, 28 Nov 2019 16:30:41 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:18:55 -0600 > goli...@devuan.org wrote: > > > More fiddling while Rome burns . . . sigh . . . > > > > I'm in a bit of a mood because I thought that a script to convert > > systemd units to init style

[DNG] Conversion script: was Formail for managing digests

2019-11-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:18:55 -0600 goli...@devuan.org wrote: > More fiddling while Rome burns . . . sigh . . . > > I'm in a bit of a mood because I thought that a script to convert > systemd units to init style shell scripts would be worthy of at least > some discussion. > > golinux I have