upstart in rawhide

[Petr Lautrbach]

Hello,

systemd will be default init system in Fedora 15 and scripts infrastructure will be adapted to it.
There is a plan to leave upstart in Fedora as non-official alternative.

For now (since upstart-0.6.5-12.fc15):

- upstart-sysvinit is no longer created

- upstart requires sysvinit-userspace (now provided by systemd) which provides upstart compatible
utilities /sbin/halt,poweroff,reboot,shutdown,telinit

- conflicting upstart utilities are located in /lib/upstart

- jobs definitions in /etc/init/ are already packaged in upstart but still taken
from initscripts upstream git

- to use upstart as init you need to pass init=/sbin/upstart to kernel command line e.g. via grub.conf


There will be probably more changes like resolving file conflicts on /sbin utilities, rc.sysinit,
/etc/init.d/halt and man pages which are currently not shipped.


Any objections and comments are appreciated.

Regards,

Petr
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Petr Lautrbach, Red Hat, Inc.