On 02/28/2014 01:10 AM, Tom H wrote: >> Just to name a few: >> - getting rid of the ugly LSB headers > > Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The "Short-Description" and > "Description" LSB fields are useless, but I don't find Debian's LSB > headers and Gentoo's squiggle-delimited stanzas any more beautiful or > uglier than the other. What's important is that they do the job of > allowing their respective rc routines order the startup - and they both > do so.
IMO, it's better because less verbose. I just feel like the syntax is better, also because it's integrated with the rest of the runscript syntax, but that might be consider not so important, I can agree with that to some degree. >> - Dependency loop breaking system > > What does this mean? That there are bugs in the dependency headers in > the 1000-odd initscripts in Debian where openrc can work through the > problem and insserv send you to the BTS? This means that OpenRC goes through the "use" links (Should-Start, in the LSB header format), and see if it needs to remove one of them in order to break the dependency loop, and have a somehow satisfying boot order. Note that this is only a feature available in a Debian specific patch for the moment (not upstreamed yet). In Debian, that's located in debian/patches/0020-dependency-loop-resolver.patch if you want to have a look. I hope we can have this upstreamed soon before 0.13 is released. > Is the mini-runscript style as experimental as Petter's 2-line sysv-rc > script? It's not. It's just that with OpenRC, you can decide to implement *or not* the start() and stop() function. If you don't, then OpenRC will use its internal function instead. > Anyway, ifupdown and netifrc are pretty much equivalent. And I don't see the point of having Debian switching to the Gentoo style of things, so we agree! :) > Finally, there's the issue of parallel boot. Debian has it in squeeze > and wheezy with insserv. Has openrc fixed "rc_parallel"? Yes. The dependency loop breaking system fixed it. What's remaining to be fixed though, is the text output which is (very) ugly when the parallel booting is activated. Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/531016d7.60...@debian.org
