From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/2457 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Bogatov Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: Is s6/s6-rc ready to be the ubiquitous init? Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:41:30 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20190111012453.22f63228@mydesk.domain.cxm> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1547296775 17653 195.159.176.226 (12 Jan 2019 12:39:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Supervision To: Steve Litt Original-X-From: supervision-return-2047-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Sat Jan 12 13:39:31 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from alyss.skarnet.org ([95.142.172.232]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1giIZS-0004OK-6s for gcsg-supervision@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2019 13:39:26 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5785 invoked by uid 89); 12 Jan 2019 12:42:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm Original-Sender: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 5778 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2019 12:42:02 -0000 In-reply-to: <20190111012453.22f63228@mydesk.domain.cxm> Comments: In-reply-to Steve Litt message dated "Fri, 11 Jan 2019 01:24:53 -0500." Content-ID: <24623.1547296890.1@neophite> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:2457 Archived-At: [2019-01-11 01:24] Steve Litt > Hi all, > = > Months ago IBM bought Redhat, and IBM might not want to throw a million > a year at a dev group devoted to keeping the systemd leaky boat afloat. > Meanwhile, just today another major systemd snafu emerged. > = > If IBM bails on systemd, is s6/s6-rc ready to take its place? I mean we > all know it's ready technically, and is well maintained, but is it ready > politically, with help for distro packagers? Perhaps some documentation > on best practices and making it easy to install s6/s6-rc. > = > We could soon have a rare opportunity for a Linux-wide init change. I'd > hate to see systemd replaced by more snake oil. Wish it was true, and systemd got abandoned. While I am already maintaining runit as init system in Debian (and do not spare cycles for another init system), probably I could provide some assistance -- sponsor uploads, for example. But currently, s6 is quite out-of-radars in Debian.