[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] merging systemd back to a singular package

[Guus Snijders]

Op 28 aug. 2012 10:06 schreef "Tom Gundersen" <teg at jklm.no> het volgende:
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht at piing.fr>
wrote:
> > Notice that debian is working on a tool to automagically convert unit
> > systemd files into initscripts.
> >
> >   https://github.com/akhilvij/systemd-to-sysvinit-converter
>
> If that works, it would be great. However, I'm very skeptical. I don't
> see how this could possibly work for services of type other than
> "forking" (i.e., how to simulate socket/dbus activation). As we hope
> that as few services as possible will be using Type=forking, that is a
> problem. Having had a brief look through the code/documents I see no
> mention of this issue, but maybe I'm missing something obvious...

Actually, that sounds like a fairly  small issue...

With most daemons i prefer to either start them at boot or not at all.
In case any daemon requires socket activation, you can use xinetd for those.

mvg, Guus