systemd unit to OpenRC layer (Was: Response to active removal of initscripts)

[Benda Xu]

Hi Lorenzo,

Lorenzo <plorenzo at disroot.org> writes:

> On 02/07/20 21:54, Tito wrote:
>>
>> I know nothing about debian packaging. That said you will excuse 
>> me if I say horribly stupid things.
>>
>> Let us taken for granted that for the near future things will stay
>> the same and therefore more and more init-scripts will  be removed
>> from packages. What could be a viable solution besides forking
>> all this packages, a effort that could overwhelm devuan's manpower?
>> I would suggest creating a initscritps-extras package, where all
>> the orphaned init-scripts (and more..) could be collected with 
>> eventually needed support files (like those in /etc/default/).
>> Most of the scripts (if not all) have a test to check if the
>> daemon is installed e.g:
>>
>> test -x "$MDADM" || exit 0
>>
>> so they could not do any harm. The only problem I can think about
>> is that the user needs to run insserv manually to enable the script
>> in the various runlevels (but maybe this could be achieved automagically).
>>
>> Just my 0,2 cents.
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Tito
>>
> Yes this is a viable option, but:
>
> you need to fix the dependency problem (some of those packages have a
> depends on systemd), see my other message
>
> it's not just insserv, you need a way to convey info from the package
> maintscripts so that update-rc.d
>
> and invoke-rc.d actions are perfomed during install/upgrade/remove/purge.
>
> I can try a prototype package and post it here (i already have some code
> because I need to do the same for runit), but only if there is at least
> a DD that is going to review and sponsor such package

Adam and I am mentoring a GSoC project to make a systemd.unit to OpenRC
scripts translator,

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-outreach/2020/06/msg00019.html

which might interest you.

Yours,
Benda
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