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On 08/21/2014 10:08 PM, Rhys Oxenham wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I’ve been working on a few patches to migrate RHEL-based distributions to systemd for the Juno cycle.

Which guides are you talking about? Is this only Install Guide?

> The existing documentation uses traditional ‘service’ and ‘chkconfig’ system calls which are largely common
> across both RHEL-based and SLES-based distributions. RHEL 7 has since moved to systemd and has
> appropriate system calls, i.e. via ‘systemctl’. In RHEL, at least, the old style system calls still work as
> expected via a wrapper script that comes built in.
> 
> My thoughts were to immediately begin the migration process, taking RHEL (and derivatives) to systemd, 
> leaving SUSE-based platforms as-is. There was a comment that we should have an open discussion as to
> whether we should take the effort now, or wait until Kilo in which SLES 12 will be available and will have 
> systemd support too.
> 
> My view is that the effort to rewrite the commands is going to need to happen, and we do have some
> inconsistencies between the RHEL and SLES based distributions. I think the most prudent option is for
> us to begin the migration now, and when SLES 12 is available we can move the OS profile where
> appropriate and change where necessary - previous conversations have confirmed this.
> 
> Thoughts?

I would prefer waiting until Juno is released so that we can share more
configuration commands and have less difference between the
distributions, thus less work.

Andreas
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