Re: Release process & rolling new releases

[David Michael]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Justus Winter
<4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
> Quoting Samuel Thibault (2014-11-23 21:11:05)
>> Hello,
>>
>> David Michael, le Wed 19 Nov 2014 19:39:43 -0500, a écrit :
>> > The only issue was that /etc/hurd/runsystem.hurd didn't get installed.
>> > I tacked the following onto patch #4 in the series to try it.
>>
>> Justus, do we need it?
>
> I guess it cannot hurt to install it.  I have no strong feelings
> either way.  The way I see it is:
>
> There is just one Hurd distribution, Debian GNU/Hurd, and it uses
> sysvinit.  If the guix project gets their Hurd port up and running,
> and I hope they do, then they will be using dmd.
>
> I wrote the init daemon and modified the runsystem script merely to
> get the `proc_set_init_task' patch merged.  I don't expect it to be
> used.

I don't feel very strongly about it either since I'm not using it
myself (I switched to dmd), but I'd lean toward installing it by
default for upstream Hurd to make things easier for anyone else trying
to build their own Hurd system outside the usual distros.  The default
startup scripts could successfully boot a usable system before this
patch set.  But if the expectation is that now a separate init system
will be installed, I'd be okay with that, too.

David