Bug 498668 – C implementation of LSB headers parser

• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Dmitry Yu Okunev 2014-01-20 11:01:53 UTC]

Hello.

I've made LSB headers parser using GNU C99 for OpenRC.

It's licensed with BSD-2-Clause and accessible via [1].

[1] https://github.com/xaionaro/openrc-lsb

What should I do or how can I help to integrate this module into OpenRC upstream?

[Comment 1 Benda Xu 2014-01-20 11:12:16 UTC]

This tool parses a LSB header such as

# Provides:          rsyslog
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $time
# Required-Stop:     umountnfs $time
# X-Stop-After:      sendsigs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: enhanced syslogd
# Description:       Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd.

to

description="enhanced syslogd"

depend () {
        need mountnfs mountnfs-bootclean umountnfs sendsigs hwclock
        provide syslog rsyslog
}

Which extends OpenRC functionality to the management of LSB scripts, such as those from Debian, Redhat, etc.

[Comment 2 Dmitry Yu Okunev 2014-01-20 19:25:43 UTC]

I've made a fallback from "hsearch_r" to "tsearch" to make the program be portable.

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2014-01-25 21:04:52 UTC]

I spoke with Thomas Goirand from Debian, and he states that OpenRC is in
a good position to be Debian's startup system for their alternate
platforms. If this happens, they will drop the lsb init scripts and
convert to runscripts. in that case, I'm not sure OpenRC needs
lsb support. I want to hold off on adding this until I know what they
are going to do.

[Comment 4 martha simons 2019-05-10 05:56:50 UTC]

# Provides:          rsyslog
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $time
# Required-Stop:     umountnfs $time
# X-Stop-After:      sendsigs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: enhanced syslogd https://goo.gl/LhppLn
# Description:       Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd.

[Comment 5 Sam James 2023-01-29 02:58:42 UTC]

We're _maybe_ open to this if submitted as a proper set of patches to the github repo as a PR and cleaned up, but we're not really sure of the need for LSB.