systemd acceptance, packaging guidelines (was Re: systemd and changes)

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 01:21:30PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:06:32PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > SERVICE HANDLING
> > > - Running 'chkconfig <foo> <(null)|on|off>' on a service managed by systemd
> > >   will return the correct code/perform an appropriate action.
> > 
> > Also, if chkconfig --add called "systemctl enable" when the sysv
> > script is enabled, most of the current scriptlets probably wouldn't
> > need any changes. The status of systemd and sysv services would be
> > required to stay in sync though.
> 
> They're not equivalent.
> 
> chkconfig --add does not change the state of a default-enabled service
> that the administrator has disabled.
> 
> systemctl enable does change the state in this case.

Yes, that's why it would call systemctl enable only if the sysv
service is enabled.

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Miroslav Lichvar