[DRE-maint] Bug#909630: gitlab: no sysvinit scripts installed or available

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

appreciated, dmitry: apologies, it catches me off-guard when things
don't work.  it was just that the decision to rail-road systemd in
(which is software that itself is being developed incredibly
unethically) - was itself made unethically (not thinking of the harm
that could result, and without wider consultation, and the
consultation that *was* done was completely ignored!).  *some* of the
damage has been undone by allowing sysvinit to be used.

i've sent in what i could find: it's nothing like the postinst script
expects, which is a series of 4 separate initscripts (that's very
strange, btw, that there's some code in the postinst that *expects*
the 4 /etc/init.d/gitlab-xxxx init scripts to be there), however i can
confirm that what i found actually works.

gitlab is very very resource-heavy, so if i make the decision to keep
it, i will definitely (need to) create separate initscripts, and will
send them in, ok?

good luck, and apologies for getting annoyed, i was really caught off-guard.

l.


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On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:51 AM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 26 September 2018 11:45:02 AM AEST lkcl wrote:
>> it would be really helpful if people could stop assuming that everyone
>> forcibly fucking wants systemd shoved at them.  and no, ordering people
>> to go use freebsd or devuan is not acceptable.
>>
>> for goodness sake please be a little more careful and considerate.
>> i'll try to track down some sysvinit scripts in a followup and post
>> them later.
>
> It would be polite not to assume that lack of SysV scripts is deliberate.
> There are not enough people involved into maintenance of such a complex
> package as GitLab and writing init scripts from scratch and maintaining them
> is not an easy task.
> Yes, your help would be appreciated if you care enough for init scripts to
> contribute them or to fund/sponsor someone who could write them.
>
> Until then systemd remains a viable option for those who have no systemd-
> fobia and wishes to run GitLab...
>
> --
> Cheers,
>  Dmitry Smirnov.
>
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