On Wed, 20.07.11 11:06, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net) wrote:
I know Fedora has not really pushed multi-instanciation before (but
there are
exceptions, see clamav). But our users do need multi-instanciation and
routinely tweak our init scripts for this reason. They won't appreciate
systemd pulling the carpet under their feet. If systemd is to be adopted, it
needs to make it easier to multi-instanciate, not harder.
I am not sure what precisely you need but systemd actually supports
instantiated services. For example, getty@.service is instantiated 6
times for getty(a)tty1.service, getty(a)tty2.service and so on, from a
single service definition file. As are the fsck service or cryptsetup.
Note that writing around in /usr outside of package installation is not
acceptable, since we want to encourage usage of read-only /usr (and even /).
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.