Re: [Bug 585908] Re: cross-comment events and *.conf files

2011-02-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
So one interesting thing about this is that if you design a system that complains about its configuration during boot, then you're complaining at the wrong person, the user. The user has no idea how the system boots, and should have no need to know. The system should boot regardless, and it _shou

Re: [Bug 585908] Re: cross-comment events and *.conf files

2011-02-04 Thread Clint Byrum
This is an interesting message and I think deserves broader discussion, so I'm CC'ing upstart-devel. On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 19:51 +, Mike Bianchi wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:17:30PM -, Clint Byrum wrote: > > As far as the assertions, I think we have a method of making sure that > >

Re: [Bug 585908] Re: cross-comment events and *.conf files

2011-02-04 Thread Mike Bianchi
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 06:17:30PM -, Clint Byrum wrote: > As far as the assertions, I think we have a method of making sure that > required files are there in the packaging system. The package upstart, > which owns /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf, depends on mountall and ifupdown. > Further, there m

[Bug 585908] Re: cross-comment events and *.conf files

2011-02-04 Thread Clint Byrum
I think the message here is that there should be a man page or alias to a man page for every event. As James says, that is being done with the upstart-events man page. So I think on that alone, this bug can be Confirmed and set to Wishlist. James, if there is another bug where you've been tracking

[Bug 585908] Re: cross-comment events and *.conf files

2011-01-31 Thread James Hunt
Hi Mike, Thanks for reporting this and be reassured that we are investigating this suggestion. Natty should ship with a few new man pages for upstart, including one currently entitled upstart-events. You can see a preview of it here: http://people.canonical.com/~jhunt/upstart/man/upstart-events