[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] systemd2init PoC

[Ondřej Surý]

JFTR I have added support for ExecStop, Exec{Start,Stop}{Pre,Post} and
X-Debian-Daemonize (to pass extra arguments to the daemon when
Type=simple and you want it to daemonize).

The shell script is still far from the universal and complete tool, but
it really makes me wonder – it was really a GSoC project (and not
something GoogleDayOfCode :-P)?

O.

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014, at 13:55, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014, at 13:33, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > On 02/14/2014 12:01 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > > I have hacked together a PoC systemd2init shell script on top of
> > > augeas-tools (you need at least jessie version) to autogenerate sysv-rc
> > > script out of simple service file.
> > 
> > Cool! Thanks for hacking this together. I'd guess this could be
> > very helpful during the transition.
> 
> My point is that's it's not that hard to write and the dh-systemd would
> benefit from such helper command. And if there's somebody willing to
> rewrite it into perl dh_systemd_sysvinit command I would be happy to
> help to finish it/debug it on my packages. The problem is that I touch
> perl just in case of emergency and only in full hazmat suit, so somebody
> would need to write the basis and I would be able to tweak it around.
> 
> > There has been a similar project during a Debian GSoC project, have
> > you looked into that as well?
> > 
> > > https://github.com/akhilvij/systemd-to-sysvinit-converter
> 
> Didn't know about that and it looks a tad bit more complete, but as I
> said we need to make this command available in an easy way to the
> packagers.
> 
> My original idea was to write a simple drop-in shell script that would
> be able to parse the .service file on runtime. That's still possible
> with augtool, but you want be able to generate insserv headers on the
> fly. I guess that's not a problem since most packages would be quite
> happy with $syslog $remote_fs, but Provides: and Short-Description:
> fields would be just wrong.
> 
> O.
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