Lennart Poettering [2015-05-26 18:36 +0200]:
/etc/locale.conf is not a fedoraism. It has not existed on Fedora
before we introduced it. It's a systemd'ism if you so will: we looked
at where the distros configured these things and came to the
conclusion that all them were weird and nothing we wanted to
support. We hence unified this in a new file. Except apparently that
DEbian wasn't willing to migrate :-(
Or let's say it hasn't happened yet. This is also commonly sourced by
third-party/admin scripts, so doing that migration is the kind of
tons of work/zero visible benefit/nontrivial regression potential
thing that nobody likes to start doing.
I really don't see how the xorg.conf.d drop-in should be
fedora-specific. That's an upstream X11 thing, and we just picked a
name for the file and that's it.
Are you saying Debian patched out supported for /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d?
No, that of course works if it's present, but Debian wants to
configure the keyboard layout for the console and other consumers too,
and parsing Xorg config in kbd/console-setup would be rather weird. So
Debian uses Xorg's udev support by default, which is essentially
KERNEL==event*, ENV{ID_INPUT_KEY}==?*,
IMPORT{file}=/etc/default/keyboard
Personally I find that rather elegant as it works for the console,
Xorg, Wayland, Mir, etc, without assuming any particular configuration
format for any of those.
More intrusive is the removal of chkconfig and addition of
update-rc.d:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/patches/Make-systemctl-enable-disable-call-update-rc.d-for-s.patch?h=experimental
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/patches/systemctl-don-t-skip-native-units-when-enabling-disa.patch?h=experimental
I offered to merge a patch that adds update-rc.d support side-by-side
with chkconfig support for this upstream, many times.
Ah, you did? I must have missed that.
That said, I think even better would be to maybe make the support for
this generic in systemctl: instead of explicitly invoking chkconfig or
update-rcd, maybe we can just make systemctl invoke some fixed binary
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-compat or so with a fixed set of
parameters. The distros could then make that a tool (maybe just a
shell script) that invokes chkconfig or update-rc.d This would then
allow us to remove any chkconfig-specific code from systemd, and would
allow all distros to plug-in the tool of their choice without having
to patch upstream. What do you think?
That sounds great. If chkconfig and update-r.cd are/were the only two
contenders then #ifdef sounds easier, but I don't know about other
distros like e. g. Gentoo.
Then we have some stupid stuff like
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/patches/buildsys-Don-t-default-to-gold-as-the-linker.patch?h=experimental-220
which got rejected, but are nevertheless still necessary on distros
(and not only for us, see responses to [2])
Well, there's no need to carry a patch for that, all you need is add a
configure cmdline param, no?
Maybe, I haven't checked. This is the kind of patch which rebases for
years without trouble :-)
Also, this is really just working around issues with gold, and
craziness in the suse build system. I am pretty sure bugs should be
fixed wherever they are
Yes, agreed. TBH, I wasn't blaming you for not taking this (or the
other stuff above), just explaining what kind of nasty real-life
s*** patches distros have to deal with as you seemed surprised about
their number. It's still better to keep upstream clean of hacks.
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/patches/Fix-paths-in-man-pages.patch?h=experimental-220
Not enthusiastic about the idea. But the XML magic is mostly
Zbigniew's territory (as this long got more complex than my XML-fu can
still grasp ;-)).
Heh; I had a quick look and I'm not sure how/where to define new
entities. I'll have a closer look when I'm bored (so, maybe in 5 years
or so :-) ).
Thanks,
Martin
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Martin Pitt| http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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