upstart testers wanted!

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 05:43:44 UTC 2008


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
>> Before we put upstart into the main tree for the feature freeze, we want
>> to make sure we have all the big bugs worked out. If you're interested in
>> helping out, read on!
>>
>> To start, just grab the repo file at
>>   http://notting.fedorapeople.org/upstart/upstart.repo
>>
>> and do an upgrade (or 'yum install upstart event-compat-sysv')
> 
> You may also need to separately install sysvinit-tools if dependencies
> do not bring it in.

FYI for anyone else comes across this.  When installing upstart and 
event-compat-sysv you may get an error during rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
Package redhat-lsb needs /sbin/pidof, this is not available.

Installing sysvinit-tools at the same time as upstart fixes this.

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