On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Arto Jantunen <vi...@debian.org> wrote:
> Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> writes: > > Just a quick idea: > > > > Can we (the mysterious somebody) write a drop-in simple dummy init.d > script > > which would take a(ny) systemd service file and run the daemon on > > non-Linux-kernel systems? > > This has been discussed several times, there was even a GSoC project to > implement a systemd service -> init script converter (essentially > providing the same thing). Sadly this isn't even nearly as simple as it > sounds. The systemd service files are simple to write exactly since the > magic has been moved from them into the daemon, this converter or > wrapper needs to implement all of that for this to work. > I think this task is majestic only if you setup a goal of supporting every stanzas in systemd files. But If I look at .service files in my packages, I need to have support only for: ExecStartPre, ExecStart, PidFile and Reload The insserv headers might be written by hand. O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>
