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 threadjordanApr 4, 2024
@ariadne @ska I would be very happy if you did OpenWRT as well :)
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Apr 4, 2024
@jordan what does openwrt have to do with this?
Show threadjordanApr 4, 2024
@ariadne It has its own specific flavor of init scripts that work with its procd init system
Show threadjordanApr 4, 2024
@ariadne https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/procd-init-scripts
Show threadAriadne Conill 🐰Apr 4, 2024
@jordan i would have no objection to adding infrastructure to support procd init scripts in the conversion tool, but i have no personal interest in packaging procd
Show threadjordan
@ariadne Understandable, I was thinking of it more from a general-purpose "as a maintainer of a project I want to easily generate init scripts for my service for a variety of init systems" perspective, I think I missed the top of the thread that mentioned Alpine specifically
Apr 4, 2024 at 6:50pmWeb