[systemd-devel] [PATCH] sysv-generator: Skip init scripts for existing native services

[Michael Biebl]

2015-02-04 22:01 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
>> But if you have a native unit, I think it's rather unexpected if you
>> disable it with systemctl, enable it in sysv, but still get it
>> started.
>
> I'd claim the opposite. Let's say you have foobar.rpm installed in one
> version that only carried a sysvinit script. Now you upgrade it to a
> version that has a service file. The fact that it was enabled
> should not change...

It should be the packages duty, to properly enable the unit on
upgrades, depending on the sysv state.

Take your example and cosider one day you drop the sysv init script as
you only want to continue shipping the native service file.
Do you want to have the service suddenly be disabled now?


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