[talk] classifying BSD init

[Brian Coca]

Patrick,

Thanks for your input, responding inline:

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Patrik Lundin
<patrik.lundin.swe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Being the one who refactored the service module into the classes
> format it has today, as well as being the initial author of OpenBSD
> support my thoughts are these:
> I generally like the idea of a "one module per project" approach,
> there are pros and cons in both directions though.
I'm very thankful for this, you've corrected many of my assumptions
and mistakes and improved BSD support greatly.

> In a general sense one drawback I see is the potential for code duplication:
> * There is currently some code that is shared among FreeBSD and
> NetBSD, specifically service_enable_rcconf().
> * There is also all of the state calculation, command execution code
> etc, which is currently shared among all supported platforms and not
> just the BSDs.
>
> Is there a plan to manage this in some way? Maby move these functions
> into some central location instead so they can be called by separate
> modules? This is a relevant question both for a unified bsdinit
> module, as well as having one module per project.

shared module code lives in lib/ansible/module_utils, this is where i
was planning to move shared code from the current service module.

> On a more specific OpenBSD note:
> Calling the OpenBSD module "rcctl" might be misleading, given that
> this only applies to versions of OpenBSD new enough to actually have
> that utility (older versions use the /etc/rc.d scripts directly).
> Given that the package manager is called "openbsd_pkg", maby calling
> it "openbsd_rc" or "openbsd_service" would be better (as well as not
> dependant on the "service manager of the day")?
> I guess the main drawback of this naming convention would be if
> another OS decided to port the OpenBSD rcctl utility, however, this
> begs the question if the "rcctl" module would be separate from a
> "openbsd_rc.d" utility for the older OpenBSD systems.... ugh... :).
>

This also depends a lot on how they port, if it is 100% compatible my
guess is that having an rcctl package will work for both OpenBSD and
whatever system it was ported to.
As for detection, I'll amend it to look for the rcctl binary and
default to rcconf if otherwise.

        elif self.facts['system'] == 'OpenBSD':
                if module.find_bin('rcctl'):
                    self.facts['service_mgr'] = 'rcctl'
                else:
                    self.facts['service_mgr'] = 'rcconf'
> --
> Patrik Lundin
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 7:28 PM, Brian Coca <briancoca+nycbug at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, I did not know this, the service plugin is probably not
>> currently working with DragonFly, I'll try to fix that also.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Justin Sherrill
>> <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
>>> Fly, which does not end with "BSD".  (And is rcconf)
>>
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>> Brian Coca
>>
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