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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 24.08.10 11:47, Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) wrote:

> From a practical point of view, I think what's actually important is:
> 
>   -- if you're in single user mode  → it says 'S'

It actually returns "1" in this case.

>   -- if you're in non-GUI multiuser → it says '3'
>   -- if you're in X mode            → it says '5'
> 
> Because that's what people are testing for in scripts.
> 
> It should also print the correct _previous_ runlevel.
> 
> I note that the man page for Fedora 13's runlevel command (and RHEL 5's, for
> that matter) claims that init will set the environment variables RUNLEVEL
> and PREVLEVEL, but that doesn't seem to actually happen.
>
> The systemd man page for runlevel doesn't say that init will set those, but
> says that if they *are* set, that's where it will get its information.

Yepp, that's for compatibility with Upstart.

> > - 'telinit' does not error when passed '[Qq]' (to reload its configuration)
> >   and '[Uu]' to re-exec itself. It can optionally make systemd do a similar
> >   action, if valid.
> 
> Since it already is documented as doing the similar actions, let's remove
> "optionally" from this statement.

Well, Upstart doesn't support reexec. We support it just fine, but
if we wouldn't this should not count as regression.

> I would like to see tab-completion for systemctl working before the final
> release. That's a request, though, not a demand.

Happy to take patches!

Lennart

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