Heads Up: FESCo is considering to block packages providing sysvinit services without systemd unit

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 07.11.11 21:14, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" (johannbg at gmail.com) wrote:

> On 11/07/2011 07:41 PM, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 10:35 -0900, Jef Spaleta wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Tomas Mraz<tmraz at redhat.com>  wrote:
> >>> Eventual blocking of the packages that violate this Fedora packaging
> >>> rule was not yet definitively decided upon, but we agreed that the
> >>> Fedora package maintainers should be warned that such blocking might
> >>> happen before the Fedora 17 Alpha release.
> >>
> >> Two questions,
> >>
> >> 1) Do we have an accurate list of the packages in this category. And
> >> more importantly how many of these have closed CLAs in the packaging
> >> trees  which would prevent me as a good Samaritan from digging in and
> >> committing a service file into the rawhide branch. The closed CLA
> >> situations are going to be the touchiest, so lets not get blindsided
> >> by those in the 11th hour.
> > No, we do not have the list. Yet? Please add the question to the ticket:
> > https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/687
> 
> Roughly accurate list added from a simple repoquery ( some of which that 
> I know already have submitted unit files )  and a tracker bug created 
> 751869.
> 
> Note dont just start blindly working on that list I probably will create 
> a wikipage on my namespace similar to what I used for F15/F16 so this 
> can be worked on in somekind of orderly fashion to prevent more then one 
> person working on converting/packaging the same unit files.
> 
> If you are a proven packager you can start with what was submitted in 
> F15/F16 as in going through the old tracker bug 713562.
> 
> Unit's created in F17 will be reflecting current state of systemd most 
> notably we no longer will be using /var/run/, instead we will be using 
> /run where applicable and we will be dropping After=syslog.target since 
> it's no longer necessary which afaik will make the submitted unit files 
> incompatible with F15 ( Lennart feel free to correct me if I wrong 
> here... ).

Yupp, newer versions might want to use /run instead of /var/run, and
drop all references to syslog.target. But then again, this is not key,
as nothing breaks if they do.

Lennart

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