Init scripts from BIRD RPMs

Ondrej Filip feela at network.cz
Fri Aug 2 14:08:56 CEST 2013


On 2.8.2013 07:11, Stanislav Datskevich wrote:
> I agree with Thomas.
> I think that discarding old RHEL init.d (upstart) support is a hasty
> decision: bird is for production systems and linux distro for
> production environment which uses RPM packages is RHEL  or it clones
> (mostly).
> 
> Although it is no matter for me because I'm not using bird rpm package
> provided by developers. I'm rebuilding it from src.rpm with bgp
> summary patch (by the way, does a honorable developers plans to
> implement 'bgp summary' command in vanilla bird?) and my initscript patch.

I will look at the initscripts. But we haven't agreed to accept 'bgp
summary'. It is not align with BIRD philosophy. But will continue
discussing about it.

		Ondrej


> 
> 
> 2013/8/2 Thomas Guthmann <tguthmann at iseek.com.au
> <mailto:tguthmann at iseek.com.au>>
> 
>     Hey guys,
> 
>     First of all I fully agree with Arnaud's changes, it is definetely
>     a neater design. I haven't look at the init script yet but if the
>     code follows his ideas then it is an improvement (especially for
>     puppet mgt). Merci Arnaud.
> 
>             [..] However init script are deprecated at
> 
>         Fedora is a very good OS but with very new ideas [..]
> 
>     Ondrej, Eliezer,
>     To summarize all RHELs are still using init.d script however RHEL7
>     and EL clones will use systemd. So Q1 2014 or so, the systemd
>     script will start to be more relevant for people that use RHEL in
>     production (like 90% of the audience that use a RedHat OS or clone
>     in production).
> 
>     Indeed Fedora is designed for Workstation, not servers IMO. Fedora
>     is a testbed for improvements that will be carefully selected for
>     the next RHEL.
> 
>     Thomas
> 
> 




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