[systemd-devel] [PATCH] sysv-generator: Do not generate units for files handled by rc-local generator

[Michael Biebl]

2015-01-23 14:32 GMT+01:00 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>:
> On Fri, 23.01.15 04:24, Michael Biebl (mbiebl at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> If distros still ship such a rc.local sysv init script, shouldn't they
>> rather symlink that to
>> the native rc-local.service? Sounds like the better alternative to me.
>> Or alternatively, mask that service.
>>
>> E.g in Debian we have /etc/init.d/rc.local and ship a
>> /lib/systemd/system/rc.local.service -> rc-local.service
>> symlink in the systemd package.

> I'd recommend not shipping the rc-local generator at all in Debian
> then. It was simply compat for some crappy logic where Fedora was
> executing two special scripts, that were not sysv during bootup and
> shutdown.

Hm, you're probably right.
I guess we could just statically enable rc-local.service in
multi-user.target.wants and drop rc-local-generator.

rc-local.service already has a
ConditionFileIsExecutable=/etc/rc.local, so it seems it would dtrt
already.

Martin, what do you think?

Michael
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