Re: guidelines for upstart in oe?

[Steffen Sledz <sledz@dresearch-fe.de>]

On 16.09.2011 17:32, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 17:29 +0200, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>> On 14.09.2011 17:31, Steffen Sledz wrote:
>>> If i remember right there are some first experiments with using upstart as an sysvinit replacement in some oe based distros.
>>>
>>> Do some guidelines or suggestions exist to make an application recipes upstart ready?
>>>
>>> Nowadays a recipe for a common service contains INITSCRIPT_NAME & Co and installs an init script for sysvinit.
>>>
>>> How should such a recipe be modified to be able to install the application in a native upstart image (without sysvinit compatible runlevels)?
>>
>> Let me put it in concrete terms.
>>
>> Is it possible to write a bb recipe in a way like this?
>>
>> ---------------------->snip<-------------------------
>> ...
>> IF IMAGE USES UPSTART AS INIT THEN
>>
> 
> Fundamentally no, since there is no way to know at the time the recipe
> is evaluated what images it will go into.
> 
> It would be possible to ship both sets of scripts and then have a
> postprocessing step to remove the ones that you don't need.  Or you
> could make upstart vs sysvinit be a DISTRO_FEATURE.  Or, in at least
> some cases, we could probably stop shipping the scripts as discrete
> files altogether and replace them with some symbolic representation from
> which the necessary scripts could be constructed dynamically at install
> time.

I'm not sure if there exist upstart based oe distros/images. But it seems that there are some systemd based ones (recipes/images/angstrom-systemd-image.bb).

Do they have a similar problem? How do these handle the sysvinit config vs. systemd config for the different services?

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