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== Benefit to Fedora ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==


Documentation= Field will bring more informational status output to our users base which links to the relevant  
Documentation= Field will bring more informational status output to our users base which links to the relevant man pages for services.
 
Removal of EnvironmentalFile entries


== Scope ==
== Scope ==

Revision as of 18:10, 5 June 2012

Systemd unit cleanup and enhancement

Summary

Introducing new systemd documentation feature and bringing shipped units closer to upstream with various cleanups.

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 18
  • Last updated:
  • Percentage of completion: 20
  • Progress Tracker Bug.

Detailed Description

Introduce


Benefit to Fedora

Documentation= Field will bring more informational status output to our users base which links to the relevant man pages for services.

Removal of EnvironmentalFile entries

Scope

  • Add Documentation= field which will contain relevant man pages to already existing units
  • Change PIDFile=/var/run/foo fields to point to PIDFile=/run/foo instead
  • Drop any EnvironmentalFile= field in units that points to /etc/sysconfig/foo files

How To Test

  • Install/update to the package that contains the new native systemd unit file.
    • Check if the update process happened cleanly
    • Check if the old sysvinit init script did get removed after install
    • Check if the service starts cleanly after install
    • check if the service stops cleanly after and install
    • Check if the service reloads cleanly correctly if applicable
  • Enable the service then restart
    • check if the shutdown process happened cleanly with the service enabled
    • check if the service started cleanly at startup

User Experience

Other than the added documentation field in the units status output

Dependencies

Depends on legacy sysv initscript to have been converted to native systemd units.

Contingency Plan

Continue to ship the systemd units as is.

Documentation

Release Notes

There shouldn't be anything we need to specifically say other than highlighting the change.

Comments and Discussion