Ariadne Conill 🐰Apr 4, 2024
almost done writing my proposal to the @alpinelinux TSC to allow alpine to become init-system agnostic, allowing for openrc, s6 and systemd to be equally supported based on user preference
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Apr 4, 2024

instead of building an "openrc compatibility layer," based on feedback from @ska I am building a proof of concept openrc initscript metadata extractor, which can write service declarations for all 3 init systems.

this allows the current openrc init scripts at the package level to be replaced with service manifests, and for us to be able to mass-convert the current init scripts into manifests.

maybe we will also support dinit, too :)

Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰

how can you help improve the success of this effort? if you are aware of openrc init scripts in @alpinelinux which aren't "declarative" (I use this term very loosely), please send in patches to convert them to the declarative style.

but, thankfully the overwhelming majority were already converted!

Apr 4, 2024 at 6:39pmWeb
Show threadkouhai, of the health issuesApr 4, 2024

@ariadne oooooh

this sounds amazing

Show threadNatanael CopaApr 5, 2024

@ariadne @alpinelinux

Just talking about this will burn me out.

Now I lost my motivation to continue on python 3.12 upgrade work (100+ py packages needs manual fixing?), clean up the testing work, boost 1.84 update, abuild release, 3.20 builders setup, llvm/clang18 upgrade, riscv64 kernel upgrade, add loonarch64 builders, the full disk problem of building infra. All this needs to be done before May for 3.20.

So please don't open a full box of bikeshedding/flamewar magnets. not now.