[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/9] hybrid systemd/sysvinit

[Khem Raj]

On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> On 11 March 2013 13:07, Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>>> This series allows you to have both sysvinit and systemd in DISTRO_FEATURES.
>>> Packages will be built with both init scripts, and some daemons will be linking
>>> to libsystemd-daemon so that will be pulled in to sysvinit images.
>> 
>> Regarding the upgrade path, Richard/Paul/myself discussed this over
>> lunch and proposed that oe-core could gain an include file for distro
>> configuration that basically injects the backward compatibility
>> dependencies.  So for meta-systemd, it would inject
>> replaces/provides/conflicts for each of the packages in meta-systemd.
>> This would isolate the dependencies into a single location, and be
>> opt-in for distros that previously shipped meta-systemd.  Hopefully
>> the implementation of this is obvious, and patches to implement this
>> are welcome.
> 
> I personally prefer to still use meta-oe systemd class and keep the
> possibility to product images with choosen init system. I think Martin
> will also prefer it.

using different init manager is a separate problem than what Ross tried to address here isn't it ?
I personally don't have a use case where I would upgrade live from 1.3 to 1.4 so
for me I could easily accept a different solution for 1.4

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