upstart configuration

[Harald Hoyer]

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 15:35 +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> 
>> in the process of migrating Fedora/Red Hat Linux to upstart I came across 
>> several issues.
>>
>> With the current implementation I see the following problems:
>> 	- the job description files are very static. Dependencies can only be added, 
>> modified, deleted by modifying this one job file (not package friendly)
>>
> This is an ongoing discussion: what ideas do you have?
> 
>> 	- there is no dependency like "start me before service xyz"
>>
> 0.3/0.5:
> start on starting syz
>               ~~~

which really starts syz only if the other job is started?

like:

network:
start on starting ldap-client
start on starting mount-nfs-filesystems


> 
>> 	- turning a job/service off requires removing the job file, which may be solved 
>> by symlinks?
>>
> Again an ongoing discussion: what ideas do you have?
> 
> Do you want to disable it from automatic starting, or prevent manual
> starting as well?

both


Ideas:
- an ugly file/symlinks based database (simplest for package installation)
- include files which only define the dependencies, which are configured by 
chkconfig like tools.