[Mageia-dev] mageia 2 and systemd

Fri Oct 14 10:28:43 CEST 2011

'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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