[maemo-developers] Upstart vs. sysvinit (roadmap)

[From: Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 27.01.2009, 13:23 +0100 schrieb Tor:
> This makes me a bit concerned. It sounds like moving away from what's
> standard (sysvinit), i.e. porting packages will need more work.
> Daemons I've ported in the past has been mostly just to drop in the
> Debian package, and a quick check of the init.d script for anything
> more complex than the slightly limited (but otherwise compatible)
> feature set available on Maemo. Very very little work.

if I remember correctly upstart can handle init-scripts,too. And it
handle it in the same way like sysvinit, but it can also do more or is
more flexible.

For e.g. on my ubuntu system the binary init is part of the
upstart-package.

Regards,

Keywan


-- 
Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni
http://www.prometoys.net

people at world:/# apt-get --purge remove capitalism
After unpacking world will be freed.
You are about to do something potentially beneficial
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as We say!'