Re: [PATCH] systemd: add support initial systemd service files

[Jacek Konieczny <jajcus@jajcus.net>]

On 03/13/14 10:52, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 09:03 +0100, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
>> On 03/13/14 01:06, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:01 PM, M A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> But this didn't seem to work, I suppose I'm not using the variables
>>>>> correctly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Systemd only provides limited variable support - you can use them for
>>>> arguments but not the executables.
>>>
>>> Not even the path to the executables ? ie $FOO/bar
>>
>> No, and there are some good reasons for that.
>> And if anybody really needs to change that after installation, he may
>> copy the unit files from /lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system and
>> edit them.
>>
>> Other way would be to use generators to dynamically build the units, but
>> I really don't thing there is a good reason for having the paths
>> dynamic.
> 
> Would it be preferable to have the Xen build system produce foo.service
> from foo.service.in doing the variable substitution at build time?

Yes, IMHO, that is the right way to do this.

Greets,
Jacek