[Gluster-devel] Enabling core and supporting Gluster services to start by default?

[Joe Julian]

Nothing should ever be auto-started. Ubuntu has it wrong. If you're 
going to enable any access to a machine, it should be by design, not by 
default.


On 10/05/17 07:43, Niels de Vos wrote:
> Following the Fedora Packaging guidelines, services should not be
> started by default, or require an exception to do so. Because of this,
> the packages we provide for different distributions do not enable/start
> services either. It is expected that the administrator that installs the
> package enables the service as well.
>
> At least for the packages in the CentOS Storage SIG, we can make this
> more automatic of we want to. A nice way to enable services by default
> without the need to modify the standard packaging (.spec) files is by
> providing a systemd.preset(5) file. This file describes what services
> should be enabled when the packages get installed.
>
> There are two items that I would like to get feedback on:
>
> a. Which service should not get autostarted after installation? Think of
>     services that require configuration, and no usable defaults can be
>     provided.
>
> b. Where should the systemd.preset file be maintained and packaged?
>     Ideally it should be part of a centos-release-gluster* RPM so that
>     the file is present before installing the glusterfs-* RPMs. Should it
>     still be maintained in the glusterfs repository, or somewhere else?
>
> Note that not all services need to be part of the main glusterfs-*
> packages. At least NFS-Ganesha, Heketi, gluster-block have their own
> repositories and packages.
>
> Thanks,
> Niels
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