[HEADS-UP] systemd for F14 - the next steps

[James Antill]

On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 22:38 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 14.07.10 16:03, James Antill (james at fedoraproject.org) wrote:
> 
> > > > Or you could just parse inittab and notice when runlevel 3 was listed. 
> > > > Keeps everything nice and compatible, including existing manuals and 
> > > > books, and sysadmin knowledge.
> > > 
> > > Is this really such a biggie? I mean Upstart ignores inittab too, the
> > > only option it still takes into account is this default runlevel and
> > > that only via some shell hackery.
> > > 
> > > We go one step further and also ignore that one line.
> > 
> >  That one line is quite important though. I'm also not sure what you
> > gain by not parsing it. 
> 
> Well, the way things are designed is that we read compat configuration
> only if no native configuration for this particular item
> exists. Example: we read /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon if
> /lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service does not exist. This is
> followed everywhere else too.

 Sure, and for service configuration that seems fine.

> Now, if we translate the same logic to inittab we'd have to check
> /etc/systemd/systemd/default.target first, and if that doesn't exist
> fallback to /etc/inittab.

 But your runlevel is not a service configuration, so I see no reason
why you couldn't say "if there is an 'id:blah:' line in inittab that's
authoritative .... if not, use default".