[oe] meta-systemd future vote Was: [meta-systemd][PATCH 1/2] Delete systemd class.

[Khem Raj]

On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:59:07PM +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:50:41PM +0100, Andreas Müller wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
wrote:
>>> > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:25:34AM -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
>>> > >> Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com>
>>> > >
>>> > > good old meta-systemd should now parse again,
>>> > Thanks - will come back to test HEADs soon.
>>>
>>> But be aware that I've fixed only parsing of avahi and wpa-supplicant.
>>>
>>> I haven't tested it properly in runtime because my upgrade path is a bit
>>> broken (because I was building images with khem's patches for a while to
>>> test other stuff) and even clean build with failed to boot with
>>> qemux86-64 and I don't have time to debug it now.
>>>
>>> > > I wont apply this 2 commits
>>> > > until systemd discussion in oe-core is finished and future of
>>> > > meta-systemd decided.
>>> > >
>>> > After systemd regression is worked around yocto 1.4 release regression
>>> > is knocking at the door...
>>>
>>> yes :/
>>>
>>> If we need to maintain meta-systemd bbappends for upgrade path we can
>>> also maintain them with PN-systemd packages and good old systemd
bbclass.
>>
>> Khem pinged me about this patch, so here are my thoughts:
>>
>> PN-systemd discussion in oe-core haven't moved a bit since this patch
>> was proposed, I think we have 2-3 options, lets vote about meta-systemd
future.
>>
>> 1) keep PN-systemd separation in meta-systemd and fixup .bbappends to
>> resolve issues created by oe-core (I've fixed some issues, but still a
>> lot of issues in postinst/postrm/prerm scripts when both inits are
>> sharing the same PN)
>>
>> 2) give up on clean separation of PN-<init> and provide upgrade path
>> from PN-systemd to PN (mostly done by these 2 commits from khem).
>>
>> 3) give up on clean separation of PN-<init> and upgrade path (there are
>> many issues in other parts of oe-core, so upgrade path from danny to
>> dylan doesn't look usable.
>>
>> A) migrate existing .bbappends to their recipes to .bb files and
>> remove this layer. Any volunteer for that?
>>
>> My vote: 3) + A) later in 1.5
> A bit off-topic and mentioned here & there: I am working on
> network-manager(-applet) 0.9.8.0 update and xinput-calibrator. I could
> add 3) + A) for them if agreed. Hope to send them beginning of next
> week.
>

Sure I see no problem
> Anderas
>