upstart in rawhide

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Fri Oct 15 06:29:14 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 16:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 01:13 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Petr Lautrbach wrote:
> > > systemd will be default init system in Fedora 15 and scripts
> > > infrastructure will be adapted to it. There is a plan to leave upstart in
> > > Fedora as non-official alternative.
> > 
> > I don't think this is a good idea at all. We want users still on upstart to 
> > get automatically migrated to systemd, so having systemd obsolete upstart at 
> > RPM level is the best way to get there.
> 
> AFAIK, this will be the case. Petr didn't say it wouldn't be.

I think there's value in having the option to switch to upstart for at
least F15, while the default of systemd is working nicely now. Then,
upstart can be discontinued in F16 or whenever.

Jon.




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