[RFC] plans for initscripts in F22

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Hi,
for the F22 I am planning some bigger changes regarding initscripts and I would like to ask for comments.

Initscripts package was in the past a crucial part of the system. They basicaly set up whole system during the boot. Currently initscripts package contains "support" for initscripts (/etc/init.d/function, service command), network initscripts and tons of leftovers.

So my plan is following:

We must keep initscripts support, but I can imagine a setup where every service uses a systemd unit, so this part does not have to be installed by default, but could be pulled in as a dependency.

Network initscript. This will be probably the most controversial part.
In fedora 21 we will have three different tools for networking (initscripts, NetworkManager and systemd-networkd) and all of them will be installed by default. For various design reasons network initscripts does not have any future (it is completely synchronous and does not work with parallel boot very well). So I would like to split it in its own package and drop it in the future. For most of the use-cases NM is sufficient replacement and if somebody will miss a static configuration we are planning to replace network initscript functionality in networkd.

Than there are scripts and configs like
/etc/crypttab
/etc/inittab
/etc/profile.d/256term.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/fedora-autorelabel
/usr/bin/ipcalc
/usr/bin/usleep
/usr/sbin/consoletype
/usr/sbin/genhostid
/usr/sbin/sushell
/var/log/btmp
/var/log/wtmp
I would like to find a new better home for them.

So I am suggesting to start with splitting initscripts to these sub-packages.

initscripts - initscripts support
initscripts-core (looking for better name) - the leftovers which needs to by installed by default for now, but we will move everything from it to different components
initscripts-network - network initscript
initscripts-readonly - support for readonly root should be redesigned completelly
initscripts-doc
initscripts-locale
initscripts-man

For more details please see the new spec file:
http://lnykryn.fedorapeople.org/initscripts/10/initscripts.spec

And  here is a test package and copr build:
http://lnykryn.fedorapeople.org/initscripts/10/
http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/lnykryn/Initscripts-10/builds/

Regards

Lukas
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