On Friday, February 21, 2014, at 09:04 PM, Robert Millan wrote:
> On 21/02/2014 19:09, Joel Lopes Da Silva wrote:
> > Furthermore, if you Google some of these big names (launchd, OpenRC and
> > systemd), narrowing down the search results to wiki.freebsd.org, it will
> > be pretty clear that launchd seems to be only one that’s actually being
> > worked on by FreeBSD developers: https://wiki.freebsd.org/launchd
> > I couldn’t find any similar page for the other contenders on the FreeBSD
> > wiki.
> >
> > Surely, using the same init system as the one that FreeBSD might use
> > someday will be nice for maintaining the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port in the
> > long run.
>
> That's interesting to hear. Since we're forced to diverge from Debian
> GNU/Linux
> on this, it'd certainly be helpful if we could synergize with FreeBSD.
>
> I was silently hoping that FreeBSD might eventually adopt OpenRC if it gains
> more traction. What do you know of FreeBSD project position regarding launchd?
>
> You mentioned some pointers to the wiki which can be used as speculation, but
> has this matter actually been proposed/discussed?
I don't really know much more than that, sorry. I'm not a FreeBSD
developer either. I'm just a guy who thinks launchd is a pretty awesome
init system, and who would love to see it more widely used.
All I know about the FreeBSD launchd project is actually on that page of
the wiki. To summarize it:
- FreeBSD apparently sponsored a Google Summer of Code project to port
launchd to FreeBSD a while ago;
- this last December, someone named R Tyler Croy announced his intent
to re-open this project to port launchd to FreeBSD:
http://unethicalblogger.com/2013/12/03/scratchiest-neckbeard-freebsd-x200.html
- it appears that he might actually be a FreeBSD developer since he
has his own page with an @freebsd.org address in the FreeBSD wiki:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/RTylerCroy
- there's a fair amount of activity in the openlaunchd repository he
opened in GitHub: https://github.com/rtyler/openlaunchd
But again, I think it's pretty telling that searching for "OpenRC" in
the FreeBSD wiki doesn't yield any results.
I think your best bet to learn more about the effort is to try to get in
touch with R Tyler. There's even a chat room on freenode for this
project.
Thanks for considering this!
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Joel Lopes Da Silva
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