Fedora Goals -- LSB-compliant/ideal init for FC5+

[Razvan Corneliu C.R. Vilt]

Bill Nottingham wrote:

>Bryan J. Smith (b.j.smith at ieee.org) said: 
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>>On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:55 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
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>>>though, and generally consist of migrating to a completely different
>>>framework, with support for legacy installation concerns such
>>>as LSB compatibility and the current init-style scripts.
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>>So the base won't be traditional System-V init?
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>Correct. (Well, the core *init* under everything may or may not
>change; but it certainly won't be the same interface from userland.)
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>Bill
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I hate to be the bad guy over here, but what about something similar 
with SMF from Solaris. It's by far the best thing for what we need, and 
it's already there and functional. It provides dependancy checking, and 
any other feature you can think of. It should be easy to combine with 
SELinux knowing all that information that is provided in the service xml 
files. Let's try not to reinvent the wheel due to political issues 
between Sun Microsystems and Red Hat.

Best regards,
Razvan

P.S. for a short presentation with enough information to get you excited 
about this check out 
http://www.filibeto.org/aduritz/truetrue/solaris10/sol-smf.pdf  and 
http://mediacast.sun.com/share/lianep/t-smf-general-march-2005.pdf  .