System V to systemd unit migration

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Wed Oct 28 20:03:45 UTC 2015


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On 10/28/2015 03:54 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Stephen Gallagher
> <sgallagh at redhat.com <mailto:sgallagh at redhat.com>> wrote:
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> At the FESCo meeting on October 14th, it was ​decided that the
> time has come to finally complete the migration away from System V
> init scripts. What does this mean for you as a packager?
> 
> When we branch from Rawhide for Fedora 24 (currently ​scheduled
> for February 2nd, 2016), we will be immediately retiring any
> package in the Fedora collection that relies on a System V init
> script instead of a systemd unit file to start. We will consider
> reasonable requests to delay this action on a case-by-case basis
> for anyone who ​submits a ticket to FESCo no later than 23:59 UTC
> on January 12, 2016.
> 
> 
> Since we have some time between now and 2/2/16, would it be prudent
> to see if we could setup a tracker/blocker bug and file bugs
> against each package still shipping SysV init files?


As it happens, we already have such a thing:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=SysVtoSystemd

We *should* make sure it's up-to-date, however.

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