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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 15.07.10 17:41, Alexander Boström (abo at root.snowtree.se) wrote:

> 
> tor 2010-07-15 klockan 16:59 +0200 skrev Lennart Poettering:
> 
> > If I added inittab parsing support even when keeping "native breaks
> > legacy" around, then inittab would matter only if the default.target
> > symlink doesn't exist.
> 
> Yeah, when saying "keep compat" you have to define exactly how to do
> that, which isn't always easy. I myself have written kickstart scripts
> that would need to be changed to deal with this but it's really rather
> trivial and I don't have any good alternative suggestion.
> 
> But I do think the %postinstall script, if it's an install and not an
> update, should check the contents of inittab and set the symlink
> accordingly. Otherwise an upgrade to a new release might make the system
> start X when it didn't do that before, which would be bad.

That is a good suggestion. To make sure that the symlinks are never
overwritten by rpm we need to install them manually in %post anyway, and
quickly checking the old inittab for a good default choice is a very
good idea.

/me adds this to his todo list.

Lennart

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