[Kimchi-devel] [PATCH] Update Wok and Kimchi systemd process.

[Lucio Correia]

On 15-10-2015 09:39, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote:
> Aline, addressing both questions in one answer.
>
> May be the name of the file kimchid.service.fedora is not a good name,
> but there is no Kimchi service. We will work only with Wok service. The
> kimchid.service.fedora file is a configuration extension for the
> wokd.service, where after the installation of the kimchid.service.fedor
> a will provide the information to wokd.service that libvirtd is
> required.
>
> Let'me try to explain how it works using a use case. The user will
> install the RPM or DEB file of Wok, only. This will enable the wokd
> service in systemd. Starting the service, libvirtd will not be
> required.
>
> Then, the user installs the RPM or DEB file of Kimchi. This will
> install an additional file in /etc/systemd/system/wokd.service.d called
> kimchi.conf that extends how wokd.service will works after the
> installation of Kimchi. At this point, wokd.service will read this
> configuration file and used it to start up the service, now requeiring
> libvirtd as required service.
>
> If user uninstall the RPM or DEB file of Kimchi, this configuration
> file will be deleted and libvirtd will not be required anymore to
> wokd.service.
>
> With this approach I can extend wokd service to work with any kind of
> plugin I want to use in my system, by configuring only those
> requirements and particularities that each plugin needs.
>
> Best regards,
> Paulo
>
> On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 18:48 -0300, Aline Manera wrote:
>> Hi Paulo,
>>
>> I am not familiar with systemd config files so I have some questions:
>>
>> 1) The main service now will be wokd. How starting wokd do we make
>> sure
>> kimchid service will be trigged and then libvirtd service?
>>
>> 2) From my view, with your patch the kimchid service would be the
>> main
>> which is not true.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aline Manera
>>

Really nice solution!

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Lucio Correia
Software Engineer
IBM LTC Brazil