[systemd-devel] systemd-cron: retrigger generator after /var is mounted

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Wed Oct 22 04:04:45 PDT 2014


On Wed, 22.10.14 14:48, Ivan Shapovalov (intelfx100 at gmail.com) wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 October 2014 at 10:26:49, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:	
> > 
> > On 10/22/2014 09:44 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > So, I thought myself a couple of times about adding a cron generator
> > > upstream
> > 
> > As far as I can tell generators serve only one purpose and that is to 
> > bridge an gap to allow users of consumers of systemd to migrate to it's 
> > native format
> 
> I don't think this is correct. Take, for example, gpt-auto-generator,
> efi-boot-generator, hibernate-resume-generator...

Correct. It's a way how to convert other runtime or static
configuration into native configuration. A primary usecase for that is
compat, but other runtime parameters are not like that.

Lennart

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