On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:20:07AM +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote: > 2) The sysvinit-translations one is bigger, it means that we have to > rewrite the remaining old-style init scripts, but I don't think that's a > bad idea: many of them lack support for the status command such. > (Probably we'll need to build a checklist so that we have to check each > init script only once.)
Objection here. I think we should switch to upstart sooner or later so this would be a temporary solution which does not worth the work. > 5) We added hook support for pacman-g2 in 0.8, and we use it for some > eye-candy stuff, but we could use it to do several other tasks as well. > > I mean, you remember that we update /usr/share/info/dir several times > during a -Syu, right? I like this one. > 6) Monit support in daemons > > This is not that important but it would be nice. Monit is (interesting, > heh?) a monitoring software. Typical use cases are: restarting sshd if > somehow it failed, checking if a given service listens on a given port, > etc. Restarting should be done by the init system. Anyway, monitoring support would be good, but what about zabbix? So why should we prefer monit? > 8) fpm archive > > We traditionally remove fpms when we upload a new version of the given > package, but this is not really necessary, now that we have a lot of > disk space. We could just move them to some archive folder, like we do > already for the fpmjunk script (mostly to avoid accidental removal of > all packages :) ). > > So, the idea would be to change repoman del not to delete packages but > move them to a separate archive, where they are still available. Well, usually newer packages are better too, but for safety reasons it worth keeping those packages for a few weeks or so. -- voroskoi
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