[arch-dev-public] Migration to systemd

[Jan Steffens]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 06:39:34PM +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
>> On Tuesday 14 August 2012 18:34:13 Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> > There are still a lot of unit files missing; we should create a todo
>> > list. It would also be helpful to write down a simple wiki page with
>> > some guidelines here.
>>
>> Did I miss something or did you miss the Jan's todo list[1]?
>>
>> > E.g. I am not sure if we should read those
>> > /etc/conf.d/$damon files from the unit files as well or drop these as
>> > the user should override unit files in /etc.
>>
>> Indeed, I was wondering if we should adapt our packages to the layout used by
>> the upstream systemd services files. E.g. the upstream proftpd service sources
>> /etc/system/proftpd, but our packages installs /etc/conf.d/proftpd.
>
> So there is no standard for this, and the general recommendation is that
> if you disagree with the default command line args the service in /lib
> provides, you should simply override the service in /etc. If anything,
> I'd vote that /etc/conf.d (or whatever other name you give it) should
> slowly shrink/disappear over time.
>
> d
>

This approach would also necessitate educating our users about running
systemd-delta after upgrades. Users might end up having overridden
units that got updated, and as a result, break.