Re: GNU Guix 1.3.0rc1 available for testing!

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On 2021-05-03, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:38:56PM +0200, Tissevert wrote:
>> I've just given the binary tarball a spin on Devuan. Worked almost flawlessly
>> (daemonize wasn't installed and I missed the part when it was mentioned 
>> because
>> I was a bit in a hurry but apart from that the overall experience was great —
>> the guix text art was surprising in a good kind of way).
>
> I think that a big part of why we offer the SysV-init "/etc/init.d"
> service management script is to serve Devuan — there are not many
> distros using that style of service management anymore.

Out of the *five* bug reports the guix packages in Debian received,
*two* of them were related to using SysV init (or at least not using
systemd):

  https://bugs.debian.org/974751
  https://bugs.debian.org/983248

So while Debian defaults to systemd, there is still the ability to
choose between init systems, and some people do explore that option.

I also just noticed some openrc scripts available too...


> If `daemonize` is not available by default on Devuan, I wonder if
> there is some other way we should be writing the script.

Yeah, not sure what best practices are for SysV init scripts these
days. For Debian I just documented that users of SysV in debian should
install daemonize; in future versions I may make it a soft alternate
dependency to the relevent systemd packages.


live well,
  vagrant

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