On Thu, 23 Apr 2020, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:18 PM Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:

  just noticed that, given that since YP 3.0 one could select systemd
as the init manager via the single variable INIT_MANAGER, which pulled
in init-manager-systemd.inc:

# Use systemd for system initialization
DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " systemd"
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED_append = " sysvinit"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager ??= "systemd"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts ??= "systemd-compat-units"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager ??= "shadow-base"


INIT_MANAGER was added in 3.0, see:
https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/?id=8d0b4704a526a48cd5e67df6
1b613424bbbdccde

i know, that's what i mentioned above.

  this doesn't quite seem to match this snippet from
meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/imagefeatures.py:

# Switch to systemd
DISTRO_FEATURES += "systemd"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = ""
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_syslog = ""
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_login_manager = "shadow-base"
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED = "sysvinit"


this is the 'old' (pre 3.0) method, and it can (and should) be
replaced with INIT_MANAGER, i believe.

i suspected as much, i just wanted to point out that those two
snippets are not *exactly* equivalent so someone should make sure that
INIT_MANAGER usage is precisely defined.

rday