upstart in rawhide

Petr Lautrbach plautrba at redhat.com
Fri Oct 15 07:57:33 UTC 2010


On 10/15/2010 01:13 AM, 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. I also don't see what we have to
> gain from having a redundant init system in the distribution.
>

For now is obsolete mechanisms replaced by dependency upstart on sysinit-userspace
which is provided by systemd. So that you will use/boot to systemd after
update to upstart-0.6.5-12.fc15 unless you have 'init=/sbin/upstart'


Regards,

Petr
-- 
Petr Lautrbach, Red Hat, Inc.


More information about the devel mailing list