On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:19:49PM +0200, VOROSKOI Andras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> 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.

Switching to a "better init system" is a good idea, but it seems it's
like the initrd one: nobody really seem to work on it even in long term.

Also, if we switch, I don't think it's trivial that we want upstart, I
remember we had issues with it because nobody really used the native
scripts, just via the sysvinit-compat support, which is in that form
bullshit. :)

> > 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?

Not sure, I haven't compared them. Though zabbix seem to be unpackaged.
Do you know both of them to give a brief comparision?

> > 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.

My favourite example is installing java 5 from 0.5 just because in some
cases some broken (closed-source) apps still doesn't work with java 6.

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