[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#712167: dbus: add upstart init support

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 14 June 2013 12:49, Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 at 12:16:28 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 at 19:23:46 +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
>> > The upstart job attached will continue to honour existing
>> > settings for additional parameters from /etc/default/dbus, just like
>> > the current init.d script.
>>
>> Do/should we support that file at all? I can't see anything in dbus-daemon
>> --help that you could put there without breaking system integration
>
>
> Similarly, if you disable or alter the pidfile in the XML, sysvinit
> and Upstart are not going to work correctly. systemd never needs the
> pidfile (because it runs dbus-daemon with --nofork, so it's trivial
> to know the pid), so it uses --nopidfile for a small performance boost.
>

Upstart doesn't track pidfiles at all. At the moment it's set to fork,
but could as well use --nofork & --nopidfile, for what performance
boosts its worth.
And upstart would then properly collect stdout/stderr into a logfile
under /var/log/upstart/dbus.log.
That does invalidate my pidfile hack in the postinst though. I guess
it does makes sense to trigger it unconditionally as well.

Regards

Dmitrijs.