On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 09:55:31PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Some folks are asking for automatic sysvinit init script generation, or
> else unit file to sysvinit init script converters. Some are asking
> Devuan's developers to prioritize their scarce programmer resources to
> modifying sysvinit, which is over 30 years old. Yet others think we
> should reimplement all the systemd functions in the Unix paradigm.
>
> Stop the madness!


Dear Steve,

I understand your frustration, and I share most of it, but I can't see
anything wrong with discussing the possibility of generating
initscripts from existing unit files (which is something that, at
least in part, already exists [0]).

I personally like the ideas behind process managers like runit (I have
also had a look at shepherd, for instance), but if you want it to
happen in Devuan somebody should work on it and make it real. And now
is a good time to do that, since Beowulf is in the making.

Unfortunately, pointing to a bunch of scripts is not enough: you need
somebody who has experience of using runit who is willing to package
the whole stuff in a coherent way, IMHO.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

[0] https://github.com/akhilvij/systemd-to-sysvinit-converter

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