[CentOS] Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

[Ned Slider]

On 08/07/14 18:36, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> On 08.07.2014 15:53, Ned Slider wrote:
>> On 08/07/14 14:14, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
>>> On 08.07.2014 14:58, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
>>>> On 07/08/2014 04:22 AM, Always Learning wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 20:46 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/07/2014 07:47 PM, Always Learning wrote:
>>>>>>> Reading about systemd, it seems it is not well liked and reminiscent of
>>>>>>> Microsoft's "put everything into the Windows Registry" (Win 95 onwards).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a practical alternative to omnipresent, or invasive, systemd ?
>>>>>
>>>>>> So you are following the thread on the Fedora list?  I have been 
>>>>>> ignoring it.
>>>>>
>>>>> No. I read some of
>>>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_topic&q=systemd
>>>>>
>>>>> The systemd proponent, advocate and chief developer? wants to
>>>>> abolish /etc and /var in favour of having the /etc and /var data
>>>>> in /usr.
>>>> err.. what? even on that wild fedora thread this did not come up!!!
>>>>
>>>> i will presume that you understood well your information source and you
>>>> are actually know what you are referring to ... so, could you elaborate
>>>> more about this?(with some references)
>>>> i use systemd for some time (and i keep myslef informed about it) and i
>>>> would need to know in time about this kind of change..
>>>
>>> There are no plans to "abolish" /etc and /var.
>>>
>>> The idea is that rather than say proftpd shipping a default config file
>>> /etc/proftpd.conf that you then have to edit for you needs instead it
>>> will ship the default config somewhere in /usr and let the config in
>>> /etc override the one in /usr. That way if you want to "factory reset"
>>> the system you can basically clear out /etc and you are back do the
>>> defaults. The same applies to /var.
>>> The idea is that /etc and /var become "site-local" directories that only
>>> contain the config you actually changed from the defaults for this system.
>>>
>>> Since you already have experience with systemd you are already familiar
>>> with this system where it stores its unit files in /usr/lib/systemd and
>>> if you want to change some of them you copy them to /etc/systemd and
>>> change them there. Same principle.
>>>
>>> /etc and /var will stay as valid as ever though and are not being
>>> "abolished".
>>>
>>
>> That's not always true.
>>
>> Some configs that were under /etc on el6 must now reside under /usr on el7.
>>
>> Take modprobe blacklists for example.
>>
>> On el5 and el6 they are in /etc/modprobe.d/
>>
>> On el7 they need to be in /usr/lib/modprobe.d/
>>
>> If you install modprobe blacklists to the old location under el7 they
>> will not work.
>>
>> I'm sure there are other examples, this is just one example I've
>> happened to run into.
> 
> You might want to report this as a bug. The modprobe and modprobe.d man
> pages explicitly reference "/etc/modprobe.d/*.conf" for the configuration.
> 
> Regards,
>   Dennis

Well, I stand corrected!

I was just running though the issue for a reply here, and what was
broken in the rhel7rc is now fixed and indeed working as documented.

My issue looked like a regression of this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=873220