On Sun, 31 May 2026 20:22:24 +0200 Matthias Geiger <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2026 20:18, Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sun, 31 May 2026 at 18:36:10 +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
>>After discussion with upstream I think it is best
>>to install the service files to /etc/rc/init.d
>...
>>Another possibility would be for the services to live under /usr/, but
>>this would require coordination with upstream.
>
>I think putting the equivalents of init scripts and systemd services
>in /usr with a mechanism for overrides in /etc, similar to how
>systemd services were done, would be a good choice for new init
>systems.
Right, that makes sense. I have talked with upstream, and they would
also be willing to support /usr/ with overrides in /etc/. Since this is
still being worked on, for the time being I would leave this for now,
and revisit once that change has landed in unstable.
So upstream already implemented this in
https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/pull/942.
Does the following change sound good?
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diff --git a/policy/ch-opersys.rst b/policy/ch-opersys.rst
index 3928723..45ad4d0 100644
- --- a/policy/ch-opersys.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-opersys.rst
@@ -362,7 +362,13 @@ The ``sysv-rc`` runlevel system for ``sysvinit`` uses
symlinks in
``/etc/rcn.d`` to decide which scripts to run and in which order at boot
time and when the init state (or "runlevel") is changed. See the
``README.runlevels`` file shipped with ``sysv-rc`` for implementation
details.
[-Other alternatives might exist.-]{+``openrc`` can determine its own
order of services to run and when to change+}
{+the init state. Since openrc uses ``/usr/libexec/rc/ìnit.d`` as
service directory+}
{+but has its own service syntax divergent to ``sysvinit``, the following
sections+}
{+about init scripts do not apply when using ``openrc-native``. Native openrc
services+}
{+must be installed to ``/usr/libexec/rc/init.d``.+}
The sections below describe how to write those scripts and configure those
symlinks.
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Thoughts on this?
best,
werdahias
