On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 00:54 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Can you elaborate on this? Would generators work for you? > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Generators > > (Sorry for not responding earlier!) > > Lennart >
Hi Lennart, I'd like to work on this, because I think it makes sense and it will simplify administrators work-flow. I will try to make a proof of concept. Despite the fact that I have rough idea how to proceed I still have some doubts about the approach here. Maybe you (Kay, Michal) can provide opinion or suggestion how all this should work. First thing from top of my head, is the placement of generated unit files. Question here is following: should we generate unit files once and store them to some more permanent location or proceed like in case of fstab or cryptsetup and store them in /run/systemd. So should we generate them on every boot or they should be generated only upon user request? I think it should be possible to run generator when requested by administrator. My second concern is that, since these generators will be used to automatize work with large number of template instances, they will be similar, just like template units are similar to each other(from user point-of-view). Differences are hidden inside the template but usage is pretty much the same. So question here is, do we need only one universal generator capable to handle all template units in system (or selected subset) and generate instances if desired, or we need distinct generator for each template service? I'd say that solution with one universal generator is better. Regards, Michal _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
