X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/5b4bf84fc89283ae153cbd1e92c21d826ce22430..60bf8a3f215da8c82ec727e3045793dea8edd5a8:/blog/archive/2009/07/07.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2009/07/07.rss b/blog/archive/2009/07/07.rss index f85dd758c1..7192b0e4f3 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2009/07/07.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2009/07/07.rss @@ -73,5 +73,56 @@ politidirektoratet om patentproblemer i Theora).</p> + + Taking over sysvinit development + ../../../Taking_over_sysvinit_development.html + ../../../Taking_over_sysvinit_development.html + Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:00:00 +0200 + +<p>After several years of frustration with the lack of activity from +the existing sysvinit upstream developer, I decided a few weeks ago to +take over the package and become the new upstream. The number of +patches to track for the Debian package was becoming a burden, and the +lack of synchronization between the distribution made it hard to keep +the package up to date.</p> + +<p>On the new sysvinit team is the SuSe maintainer Dr. Werner Fink, +and my Debian co-maintainer Kel Modderman. About 10 days ago, I made +a new upstream tarball with version number 2.87dsf (for Debian, SuSe +and Fedora), based on the patches currently in use in these +distributions. We Debian maintainers plan to move to this tarball as +the new upstream as soon as we find time to do the merge. Since the +new tarball was created, we agreed with Werner at SuSe to make a new +upstream project at <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/">Savannah</a>, and continue +development there. The project is registered and currently waiting +for approval by the Savannah administrators, and as soon as it is +approved, we will import the old versions from svn and continue +working on the future release.</p> + +<p>It is a bit ironic that this is done now, when some of the involved +distributions are moving to upstart as a syvinit replacement.</p> + + + + + Debian has switched to dependency based boot sequencing + ../../../Debian_has_switched_to_dependency_based_boot_sequencing.html + ../../../Debian_has_switched_to_dependency_based_boot_sequencing.html + Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:50:00 +0200 + +<p>Since this evening, with the upload of sysvinit version 2.87dsf-2, +and the upload of insserv version 1.12.0-10 yesterday, Debian unstable +have been migrated to using dependency based boot sequencing. This +conclude work me and others have been doing for the last three days. +It feels great to see this finally part of the default Debian +installation. Now we just need to weed out the last few problems that +are bound to show up, to get everything ready for Squeeze.</p> + +<p>The next step is migrating /sbin/init from sysvinit to upstart, and +fixing the more fundamental problem of handing the event based +non-predictable kernel in the early boot.</p> + + +