[OE-core] systemd/sysvinit in the 1.4 release

[Yi Qingliang]

Who need hybrid mode?

On Thursday, April 18, 2013 08:29:20 AM Richard Purdie wrote:
> I just wanted to be clear with people what has gone on with sysvinit and
> systemd in the 1.4 release.
> 
> Basically I took some patches recently on a trust that certain things
> had been checked and it was found that there were problems with the
> changes after they went in. At some point I have to trust the data I'm
> getting and in this case things broke down.
> 
> Since systemd is one of the priority features of this release, releasing
> with it broken was not the right thing to do so at the last minute we've
> basically reverted some of the recent changes to systemd and udev
> (the /sbin relocation) and then tried to fix various issues that arose
> from that (even with the reverts, there were still several issues). I
> appreciate this isn't an ideal thing to do either.
> 
> We now have a build of the dylan branch which is likely to become rc2
> and get tested by QA and may well be the final release. We're past the
> point we can consider any changes unless something is seriously broken.
> We're trying to do some additional testing today to determine whether
> there is anything seriously wrong with the recent changes.
> 
> I would point out that having the "systemd + sysvinit" hybrid mode which
> is not something we'd originally planned for gives us a ton of headaches
> since we have to test:
> 
> systemd only
> systemd+sysvinit in systemd mode
> systemd+sysvinit in sysvinit mode
> sysinit only
> 
> and for each we need to test for each architecture and we then need to
> look at for example multilibs in each case. Currently the autobuilder
> isn't able to help with this although obviously that is something we
> need to fix in the 1.5 cycle.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
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