[Mageia-dev] mageia 2 and systemd

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Guillaume Rousse at 14/10/11 08:51 did gyre and gimble:
> Le 14/10/2011 08:53, Shlomi Fish a écrit :
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:00:58 +0200
>> philippe makowski<makowski.mageia at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> how and when will we make the move ?
>>> should we need to provide native systemd service files for Mageia 2 ?
>>>
>>>
>>> some doc from Fedora for packaging :
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines:Systemd
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ScriptletSnippets#Systemd
>>
>> I've had a very bad experience upgrading to systemd-sysvinit on my
>> desktop Core
>> i3 machine. The boot took forever, and I ended up giving up, booting
>> from a
>> LiveCD, and restoring the "sysvinit" package, which made booting the
>> system OK
>> again. Here are the relevant logs from #systemd on Freenode (I am
>> rindolf):

> But why did you the change this way ? Using 'init=/bin/systemd' on
> kernel command line is enough to switch to systemd, and allows you to
> fallback to sysinit if needed.

It's the default for the moment is it not - to try and encourage more
testing? That said, for the case like this, it's a bit of a pain to
recover when something goes horribly wrong!

Col

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