Op 11 mrt. 2013, om 23:49 heeft Khem Raj <[email protected]> het volgende 
geschreven:

> 
> On Mar 11, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 11 March 2013 13:07, Ross Burton <[email protected]> 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

Upgrading between 1.3 and 1.4 is already impossible for non-systemd related 
reasons. But that shouldn't be a reason to break upgrade paths for other 
things, so I'd very much like to see some attention to this for 1.5.
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