-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [systemd-devel] [HEADS-UP] Early-boot SysV service support is going away Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:59:26 +0200 From: Lennart Poettering Organization: Red Hat, Inc. To: systemd Mailing List Heya, In a month or two we'll make the SysV service logic in systemd generator-based. This helps us clean up our codebase a bit and makes SysV service support an optional plugin rather than something that is built into PID1. Effectively, by doing this move very little will change in behaviour for SysV scripts, with one exception however: we will remove support for early-boot SysV scripts. Early-boot SysV scripts are those for the special "S", "boot", or "b" runlevel that exist on some distributions. These runlevels are highly distro specific, have never been really standardized and are really cumbersome to support right now with a lot of per-distribution hacks. Please do not misunderstand this: it's one thing supporting normal SysV scripts, it's another one supporting them in the early boot part of the things. The former is going to stay for a long time, the latter however is going to be removed in a couple of month. Anyway, this is basically just a heads-up about this, so that you folks who still need this can think about good solutions what to do instead. Here's what I can propose: a) port the early-boot init scripts to native systemd units. You probably should do that anyway, and in most cases there should be very little left that systemd doesn't do on its own anyway in the early-boot process. We recommend to go this way, of course. or b) Try to forward-port support for these magic runlvels to what's coming. Probably a lot of work, since due to the conversion to a generator this is a lot more work than it might appear right now. The code structure of the sysv logic will change quite substantially. or c) write an explicit generator for these services, in the specific syntax of your distro. Anyway, please think about it, we'd just like to make you aware of this in time. At least Debian, Suse, Ubuntu, Angstrom appear to be candidates where this lost functionality might be noticable. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org