[Fedora-packaging] Revised systemd Guidelines

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:00:37PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) said: 
> > 1) A system admin unfamiliar with systemd installs apache and sees that
> > there's an /etc/init.d/httpd file.  He runs /etc/init.d/httpd start to
> > startup the service unaware that when systemd reboots the service it will be
> > using the unit file and not the sysvinit script.
> 
> /etc/init.d/<foo> start redirects to systemctl; systemd will then start
> whichever of the units is 'active' - in this case, it would be the systemd
> service both before and after reboot.
> 
How does this work?  Does this mean that init scripts have to be rewritten
to do something like this?

   start)
      systemctl check-that-systemd-is-the-init-system
      if test $? ; then 
          systemctl $1 start
      else
          # Do startup when running sysvinit/upstart/etc
      fi

-Toshio
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