Bug 742698 – gui-libs/greetd: missing .init file for openrc

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jonas Toth 2020-09-15 18:17:38 UTC]

Created attachment 660429 [details]
New .init-file for greetd

Hi,

gui-libs/greetd right now only install a systemd unit-file, but not an openrc one.

I wrote a simple file and patched the ebuild in my local overlay, and that works quiet well.

[Comment 1 Jonas Toth 2020-09-15 18:18:26 UTC]

Created attachment 660432 [details]
Updated ebuild

I use this ebuild for greetd with openrc support

[Comment 2 Brian Evans (RETIRED) 2020-09-15 18:36:38 UTC]

(In reply to Jonas Toth from comment #0)
> Created attachment 660429 [details]
> New .init-file for greetd
> 
> Hi,
> 
> gui-libs/greetd right now only install a systemd unit-file, but not an
> openrc one.
> 
> I wrote a simple file and patched the ebuild in my local overlay, and that
> works quiet well.

You can drop the start() function entirely if command_background="yes" was added.

[Comment 3 Jonas Toth 2020-09-15 18:40:21 UTC]

I updated the PR accordingly. Thanks for the tip.

[Comment 4 Aisha Tammy 2020-09-15 20:31:18 UTC]

As mentioned in the PR, this is not the way to handle a new display manager.

Work is currently being done in [1] to make greetd a display manager working at openrc level to make sure that it will not conflict with holding up a tty

[1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/16554