[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/9] hybrid systemd/sysvinit

[Otavio Salvador]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> On 11 March 2013 13:07, Ross Burton <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> This series allows you to have both sysvinit and systemd in DISTRO_FEATURES.
>> Packages will be built with both init scripts, and some daemons will be linking
>> to libsystemd-daemon so that will be pulled in to sysvinit images.
>
> Regarding the upgrade path, Richard/Paul/myself discussed this over
> lunch and proposed that oe-core could gain an include file for distro
> configuration that basically injects the backward compatibility
> dependencies.  So for meta-systemd, it would inject
> replaces/provides/conflicts for each of the packages in meta-systemd.
> This would isolate the dependencies into a single location, and be
> opt-in for distros that previously shipped meta-systemd.  Hopefully
> the implementation of this is obvious, and patches to implement this
> are welcome.

I personally prefer to still use meta-oe systemd class and keep the
possibility to product images with choosen init system. I think Martin
will also prefer it.

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