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 the work, can you mark this one as a duplicate of
it?
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 may be situations where something starts on an event that
is only generated by something it is not dependent on. For instance, you
may only want to run task foo when a service with NEEDS_FOO=1 starts.
start on starting NEEDS_FOO=1
The loose coupling gained by *not* making things too rigid is I think
part of the power of the system. The 'emits' keyword is sort of like
assertions, but on the other side. Right now, there's no enforcement of
emits, so they're prone to rotting over time. With the visualization
stuff that James Hunt has been working on (its really, REALLY cool..
James, please get it out soon! :) You'll see that your event isn't
pointed to by any 'emits', or that your job will point to an event that
isn't consumed by anything.
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Summary changed:
- cross-comment events and *.conf files
+ Document all events (was: cross-comment events and *.conf files)
** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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Document all events (was: cross-comment events and *.conf files)
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