On Thursday, January 20, 2011 07:09:43 pm Sander Jansen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Yaro Kasear <yaro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thursday, January 20, 2011 06:48:14 pm Sander Jansen wrote: > > (snip) > > > >> - It's nice you can install it next to sysv-init. This makes it really > >> easy to test without breaking the system. > > > > You can do this? I might try it out. If it works as expected in its stage > > of development, I'll quick being a jerk about it. > > > > Also, how does that work? Do you choose an init at some point? > > See the wiki, it's a kernel boot parameter. > > >> - If you installed vala 0.10, systemd-git won't build, even though gtk > >> is disabled. This is a bug in the configure script of systemd. > >> Solution would be either to install vala-0.11 or remove vala from your > >> system. > > > > I'm confused by this. Do you mean that vala's conflicting something out > > of the system or just causing a breakage in some way? > > There's a bug in configure script. It works fine if you don't have > vala installed, but if you do have it installed it will bark at you if > you have the wrong version. > > >> - I guess the initscripts-systemd is listed as an optional dependency > >> of systemd, but I'm not sure how usefull systemd is without it...? > > > > Though I don't 100% know how systemd is, don't all init systems need > > scripts to be useful? I would think that installing systemd's > > initscripts would be important for it to do its work. > > Yeah, this is more a packaging issue. > > >> - The login console seems to be slightly messed up. I can login, but > >> error/log messages keep being send to the terminal as well. > > > > What are the messages? Is there a bug in the bug tracker about this or is > > this purely an upstream concern? > > Just stderr output from the various daemons running. I'm guessing it > goes to the wrong terminal. > > >> - I know how I can change the default target on the boot line, but can > >> I set it anywhere else? > > > > Is that how you would run one init system over another? > > systemd has a concept of runlevels, but calls them targets. You can > override the default on the kernel boot line. > > >> - sshd has listed network.service as a dependency, but what if you use > >> NetworkManager instead? > > > > Would this be cause for a seperate set of daemon scripts just for systemd > > or are there plans to make it work with rc.conf in much the same way > > SysV does? > > systemd has "unit" files that replace the traditional sysv daemon > scripts. They're much shorter and sweeter. The question was related to > whether sshd should list "network" which is arch's /etc/rc.d/network > script as a dependency. > > Cheers, > > Sander I think I'll try this out. I'll be sure to file bug reports as necessary.
