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Re: [sysvinit-devel] Make a new sysvinit upstream release?


From: Michał Kulling
Subject: Re: [sysvinit-devel] Make a new sysvinit upstream release?
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:56:22 +0100
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Hi everyone,

i'm watching sysvinit mailing list from several weeks, and I thing it's good time to move sysvinit source to github.com.

SVN is too old source versioning software, many people and projects move from svn to git. Basically, github include wiki pages and issue tracking.

Now I'm working for some additional functionalities for sysvinit, which exteneding service management (start-stop-deamon sux?).

Mike.

W dniu 08.02.2014 15:14, Petter Reinholdtsen pisze:
[Dr. Werner Fink]
I've no problem here.
Currently we do not use SysVinit here but systemd.
I believe we are ready to push a new release.  I've tested it in a
virtual machine, and at least 'init' is able to boot a machine. :)

I suggest we drop the 'dsf' ending on the version number, as it is
obvious to me that there will not be any other upstream for sysvinit.

These are the documented changes in doc/Changelog:

sysvinit (2.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   [ Werner Fink ]
   * Do not forget room for last NULL of new environment (was
     local bug 35866)
   * Handle deleted binaries in pidof (was local bug #34992)
   * Allow init to delete extra environment variables (was local bug
     #35858)
   * Avoid that init double environment variables for its childs
     (was local bug #35855)
   * Remove man-db tag for encoding for canonical man
   * Sulogin: try to detect the real device(s) used for the system console
     /dev/console if but only if /dev/console is used.  On Linux this can
     be more than one device, e.g. a serial line as well as a virtual
     console as well as a simple printer.
   * Fix counting message lines in wall. Patch from Petr Lautrbach.
   * Fix bad printf conversion specifier in wall. Patch from Sébastien 
Luttringer.
   * Add patches from Openwall project. Thanks goes to Solar Designer.
   * Add code to detect the system consoles with the help of the
     new /proc/consoles files of linux kernel 2.6.38+
   * Try to make utmpdump IPv6 valid, change based on suggestion from
     Navdeep Bhatia (see local bug #32429)
   * Fix signal and alarm handling based on the patch from Florent Viard.
     (was local bug #32304)
   * Add fix for Redhat bug #573346: last incorrectly displays IPv6
     addresses (was local bug #29497)
   * Correct fix for Debian bug #547073: use IUTF8 flag if defined
     and if already set to make sure the utf-8 flag is not cleared
     from the tty. Patch from Samuel Thibault.
   * Include limits.h in killall.c to enforce definition of PATH_MAX
   * Fix sysvinit bug #29758 Linker invocation should not contain
     headers. Change based on patch from Elias Pipping.
   * Add fix for Debian bug #580272: use return value 1 of
     is_selinux_enabled() to determine if SELinux is enabled,
     otherwise initialize SELinux and load the policy. Patch from
     Petter Reinholdtsen.
   * Make quotes visible in example of the manual page of fstab-decode
   * Sulogin: enforce reconnection of stdin/stdout/stderr if a device
     was specified.
   * Sulogin: if zero is read at reading the passwd guess it's done.
   * Sulogin: respect byte order that is do not mix chars and ints
   * Shutdown: use PATH_DEFAULT as suggested by Paul Arthur in local bug #36101
   * Killall5/pidof: handle strange names of executables (local bug #36252)
   * Sulogin: be aware the crypt(3) may fail (local bug #36313)

   [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
   * Next release will be 2.89dsf.
   * Add #ifdef in bootlogd.c to avoid gcc warnings about unused
     variable on non-linux platforms.
   * Only set the VSWTC field for termios in init if it is available,
     to get the source building on FreeBSD.
   * Add some code to be able to detect programs even as user with
     kernel 3.0 and above
   * Improve message printed when signaling processes to stop.
     Patch from Matias A. Fonzo at the dragora project.
   * Rename internal functions warn() and shutdown() in the shutdown
     binary to avoid surprising dynamic library name resolution
     conflict with NSS modules.  Patch from Richard Tollerton.
   * Try harder to find libcrypt.*, even if there is no static library
     available.  Also look in /usr/lib/*/ for the library, to handle
     Debian multiarch systems.  Based on patch from Andrew Gregory.
   * Adjust included headers to be compatible with the musl C
     library.  Patch from Matias A. Fonzo and Dragora.
   * Move dovoid() macro from #ifdef__GLIBC__ to #ifdef __linux__,
     to match the condutions of the place where it is used.  Thanks
     to Matias A. Fonzo for noticing.
   * Define _XOPEN_SOURCE when building to get crypt() from <unistd.h>
     instead of using <crypt.h> in sulogin.c, to get the source building
     with the musl C library.
   * Use sysconf(_SC_SYMLOOP_MAX) instead of MAXSYMLINKS.  If sysconf
     returns an error, fall back to MAXSYMLINKS on platforms that
     define it.  Fixes build on Hurd.  Patch from Justus Winter and
     Debian.
   * Adjust makefile to make it easier to link all binaries statically.
     Patch from Matias A. Fonzo and Dragora.
   * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd.c to not chance working directory, to
     reduce the amount of failure that can happin in that function.
   * Adapt bootlogd TIOCCONS call to kfreebsd.  Patch from Mats Erik
     Andersson and Debian.
   * Document length limit for the process field in the inittab.  Patch
     from Johannes Truschnigg and Debian.
   * Fix typo in fstab-decode(8) font escape.  Patch from Bjarni Ingi
     Gislason and Debian.
   * Port ifdown.c to FreeBSD.  Patch from Guillem Jover and Debian.
   * Drop dsf part from version number.  It no longer make sense to keep.
   * Remove obsolete/ directory from tarball.  None of it have been useful
     for many years.
   * Make it possible to specify the initctl path as a compile time
     define INIT_FIFO.

  -- Petter Reinholdtsen <address@hidden>  Sun Apr 11 11:28:55 CEST 2010

Anything missing?  Anyone got any new patches you want to apply?  We can
shedule a new release in a few weeks, to handle any leftovers.  There
are a few Debian paches I have not had time to evaluate yet, but I want
the new version out while I still have some drive in the process. :)





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