upstart → systemd upgrade path issue

[Petr Lautrbach]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:33:50AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> today this update:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/upstart-1.2-2.fc14
> got pushed to F14. (FWIW, I don't see how this is consistent with the update 
> policies, but that's not the matter here.)

Hi,

upstart-1.x branch is considered as stable and it's recommended update, see [1]
> 
upstart-1.2-2 hasn't changed upstart behavior. It fixes upstream bugs and also adds new
features like new stanzas (manual,debug) and also .override files
feature adapted from Ubuntu.

> The result is that systemd in F15 no longer Obsoletes the upstart in F14:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707507
> 
> This is going to break upgrades from F14 to F15 for many of our users. :-(
> 

Upgrade still installs systemd. systemd provides systemd-sysvinit which is required
by initscripts. 

There is only issue is that upstart is not uninstalled and pulls
initscripts-legacy as pointed in [2].

[1] http://upstart.at/2011/03/02/upstart-1-0-this-is-a-fertile-land-and-we-will-thrive-released/
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707507#c5


Petr