/usrmove?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 10.02.12 10:23, Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:28:47AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 17:53 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> > > c) Systemd doesn't seem to preserve existing activated services upon 
> > > update (I recall having to manually activate cron and rsyslog).
> > 
> > This is documented in the common bugs:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs#Upgrade_from_previous_releases_resets_the_enablement_status_of_services
> > 
> > (including my extra-special new invented word, 'enablement'!)
> > 
> > Either FESCo or FPC, I forget which, requested that it be done this way,
> > even though there is a tool in systemd (systemd-sysv-convert) which
> > should have made it possible to bring over the present status of
> > services during the upgrade.
> >
> The phrasing of this makes it sound like systemd-sysv-convert is not being
> used.  If you look at the guidelines, it is being used to preserve state but
> restoring the state of a particular service after a service is upgraded to
> use systemd config files is left to the system administrators.  The design
> to leave that up to the administrators manuall actually came to FPC from the
> systemd developers.

Ahum. I wrote systemd-sysv-convert to make FPC happy, not because I
think it's a good idea.

Lennart

-- 
Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.