[systemd-devel] [PATCH] vconsole-setup: fix path on Arch

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 07.10.10 14:00, Lucas De Marchi (lucas.demarchi at profusion.mobi) wrote:
>
>> Arch uses the same paths and default font of gentoo. Previously,
>> systemd-vconsole-setup was failing with the following message:
>>
>> systemd-vconsole-setup[59]: /bin/setfont failed with error code 1.
>
> I have now merged this patch.
>
> However, let me make clear that I am not a big fan of patches like
> this. We intend to drop distro-specific compatiblity kludges from the
> systemd tree eventually at which point people should really have
> migrated their binaries to some standardized place or from then may
> carry on with out-of-tree patches. And this kind of configuring
> appropriate paths for the same binaries is the first thing we are going
> to kill.
>
> There's really no point in installing setfont at different places in the
> various distributions. And since to me it appears to make more sense to
> have those tools in /bin rather than in /usr/bin (since you want
> kbd/console set up properly when asking for hdd passwords during early
> boot) I think we should declare /bin the standard place for these tools.
>
> Or in other words: start moving things to standard places now!

I totally agree. I think this serves as a start point to people
starting migrating their init. If / when Arch developers decide to
totally migrate to systemd, I hope these patches can be dropped.


Lucas De Marchi