[CentOS] C7, systemd, say what?!
Veli-Pekka Kestilä
centos at vpk.nu
Thu Jun 8 08:15:43 UTC 2017
On 7.6.2017 23:40, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
> On 06/07/2017 01:27 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> On Jun 7, 2017, at 1:02 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>>> every RPM that interacts with systemd will need to be 'fixed' to do
>>> it the old way, with init.d scripts. repositories like postgres,
>>> EPEL, etc won't work, either, as their C7 packaged daemons are all
>>> configured to use systemd.
>> That’s just skimming the surface.
>>
>> The real hard bits come from the way systemd hooks into the whole
>> FreeDesktop infrastructure and vice versa. (e.g. dbus is now
>> inextricably part of systemd, and many FreeDesktop interactions happen
>> via dbus.) This is why the BSDs are either dropping GNOME and KDE
>> (e.g. Lumina in TrueOS) or have badly lagging ports compared to the
>> upstream version.
>>
>> I suspect it’s probably easier to start with C6, then backport as much
>> as is possible without dragging in any systemd stuff, the same way the
>> BSDs are doing.
>>
>> Good luck to y’all. Sincerely. I plan to keep on using C7, warts and
>> all.
>>
> As I mentioned previously. Scientific Linux (another RHEL clone) HAS
> solved those issues. Centos isn't running the latest KDE/Plasma5 junk.
>
How they have solved it? According SL7 release notes in:
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7.0/x86_64/release-notes/
They say following:
"Following upstream SL7 uses systemd as its init system. The System’s
Administrators Guide published by upstream provides a helpful
introduction to systemd commands."
-vpk
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