On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Harald Hoyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 15:35 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> >>> in the process of migrating Fedora/Red Hat Linux to upstart I came across >>> several issues. >>> >>> With the current implementation I see the following problems: >>> - the job description files are very static. Dependencies can only be >>> added, >>> modified, deleted by modifying this one job file (not package friendly) >>> >> This is an ongoing discussion: what ideas do you have? >> >>> - there is no dependency like "start me before service xyz" >>> >> 0.3/0.5: >> start on starting syz >> ~~~ > > which really starts syz only if the other job is started? > > like: > > network: > start on starting ldap-client > start on starting mount-nfs-filesystems > > >> >>> - turning a job/service off requires removing the job file, which may >>> be solved >>> by symlinks? >>> >> Again an ongoing discussion: what ideas do you have? >> >> Do you want to disable it from automatic starting, or prevent manual >> starting as well? > > both > > > Ideas: > - an ugly file/symlinks based database (simplest for package installation) > - include files which only define the dependencies, which are configured by > chkconfig like tools.
You might want to look into Gentoo's rc-update system for this logic. -Garrett -- upstart-devel mailing list upstart-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
