Native upstart scripts

[Pawel Golaszewski]

On Tue, 4 May 2010, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> > I think Upstart support should be implemented as an option, coexisting 
> > with current solution, so the administrator may choose what he prefers 
> > and even use init.d for some services and upstart for other.
> I was hoping for eventually dropping rc scripts for some services and
> moving them completely to upstart. I see why that might sound scary
> and am ok with having two solutions.

-ENOWAY !
Don't remove working sollution.

It can be done for new services, but not for existing-ones.

> I'd opt for having 2 separate -init subpackages, one with the current
> rc.d contents and one with an upstart job description and a simple
> rc.d wrapper that runs "start $foo", "stop $foo" etc.

I wanted to say something like that.

> > What do you think? Should I try to prepare a proof-of-concept 
> > implementation?
> Ladies and gentlemen, we have a volunteer :)

hip-hip, hura!!! ;)

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