Including batteries

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:57 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote:

> First, I'm extremely enlightened that someone finally sat down and dared
> question the whole sysvinit/crond/atd/[...] mess that we've all gotten
> used to. I haven't been this excited since the introduction of devfs :)
> 
Well, let's hope that upstart stays around a little longer ;)

> Anyway, I really want to play with this new toy, but it seems the
> batteries (common event.d entries) are currently only available as
> distro value-adds, which means I'm out of luck since my distro doesn't
> package upstart.
> 
> Now, to be honest, my intention is to package upstart myself, and I've
> had a look at the Ubuntu diff.gz to get an idea of what it takes.
> However I'd much prefer to have the common event.d things available
> within the upstream tarball (and patch/add to suit my distro) over
> duplicating all the configs and maintain them externally - and I suspect
> other packagers would too, thus boosting upstart adoption :)
> 
My intention is to follow the udev lead in this regard and ship copies
of the job definitions from the distributions that adopt upstart, so
that someone producing a custom package can pick and choose as they
like.

This is worth starting once the first distro actually starts using
upstart natively, rather than just emulating sysvinit with it (which is
what Ubuntu does now).  You can obtain the emulation job definitions
from http://upstart.ubuntu.com/download/example-jobs.tar.gz

Obviously these will require tweaking for your distro, as every distro
does sysvinit differently!

Scott
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