[gobolinux-devel] Boot sequence enhancement

[Thomas Heller]

Isn't that a little bit against the idea "the filesystem is the package 
management"? But in general, you're idea and mine are not disjunct, so they 
could be easily combined.

On Friday 22 August 2008 14:03:48 you wrote:
> I was think in something like that, but a little different.
>
> One file called /S/S/BootScripts/Tasks, where InstallPackage can
> "grep" for the task name and if isn't in there InstallPackage will
> "echo #$TaskName >> /S/S/BooScripts".
>
> So, the user can "uncomment" the task they want, then BootUp will
> start the uncommented tasks and Shutdown will "inversely" stop
> these tasks.
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Thomas Heller <thomas.heller1 at gmx.de> 
wrote:
> > Hi,
> > As I am new to GoboLinux and this list i just want to say hello, and say
> > that i like the way gobo linux is going and the realisation is pretty
> > good, from what i saw.
> > But on the other side, as i did the installation, i noticed some not so
> > good "features" one thing i disliked was, how the boot process gets
> > configured, and the you handle "Tasks", as I am used to handle
> > with /etc/init.d and some simple configuration file here is the proposal
> > to the boot sequence:
> >
> > extending the Config file /System/Settings/BootOptions with a parameter,
> > lets say BootTasks which holds a whitespace sperated list of tasks to
> > start at boot time. This would make the current the current scheme, where
> > you have to edit /System/Settings/BootScripts/* to have the correct
> > behaviour. One benefit would be that you only have one place to configure
> > the boot sequence.
> > Another benefit would be a much cleaner and safer way to control the boot
> > sequence for the user.
> >
> > What do you think about that?
> > I won't be able to to answer you until sunday evening, but if you like
> > that idea i could write a patch for the current bootscripts.
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Thomas Heller
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