[arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
Hi guys, As the move to systemd is under way, and we will soon have packages in our repos that require your system to be booted with systemd, I thought this would be a good time to summarize the state of sysvinit/initscripts in Arch and their future. Abstract: I think the current state is

Re: [arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

2012-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Tom, I had no time to read the complete mail, I'll do it ASAP. Is it possible to configure pacman to upgrade initscripts and related packages only from testing, but no other packages? Regards, Ralf

Re: [arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Is it possible to configure pacman to upgrade initscripts and related packages only from testing, but no other packages? I don't think you can make pacman do that automatically (I think not). What you can do is add

Re: [arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

2012-09-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: I intend to maintain initscripts in the official repos as long as this makes sense. However, for this to be viable, I think we would need at least one capable and active initscripts developer who is interested in helping out and

Re: [arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

2012-09-27 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: A question about this: apart from changes such as those required to accomodate systemd or the /lib to /usr/lib migration, _what_ is actually involved in the day-to-day maintenance of initscripts ? In other words, what

Re: [arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

2012-09-27 Thread G. Schlisio
-remove initscripts from the repos -no more developement in git and on arch-project ML I don't see the benefit of doing that quickly, but if that's what you guys want, it is fine with me. I would be in favor of initscripts dying a natural death. some people are stuck with initscripts for a

Re: [arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help

2012-09-27 Thread Daniel Wallace
G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: -remove initscripts from the repos -no more developement in git and on arch-project ML I don't see the benefit of doing that quickly, but if that's what you guys want, it is fine with me. I would be in favor of initscripts dying a natural death. some