Re: [pve-devel] [RFC PATCH installer 2/5] fix #5579: first-boot: add initial service packaging

[Christoph Heiss <c.heiss@proxmox.com>]

Thanks for chiming in!

On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 10:49:19AM +0100, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> Am 15.11.24 um 10:34 schrieb Christoph Heiss:
> > [..]
> > Should it be an enum then? I.e. only allowing certain values such as
> > - network-pre.target
> > - network.target
> > - network-online.target
> > - multi-user.target
>
> Yeah, I would not make it generic, just the two or three most common
> orderings, we can then extend it on potential future user demand.

Alright, that was my thought here too. A slight abstraction layer will
make things lot less confusing for users.

>
> I think before network, post network and finished boot, i.e. multi-user
> target seem enough for now.

Ack!

> [..]
> > Not sure if we could just use multi-user.target as a default target, but
> > systemd *should* pull it in and run it in the right ordering too with
> > e.g. {Before,Wants}=network-pre.target ?
>
> Isn't the WantedBy is more for defining the target the unit itself will
> be part of, or? Adapting that might indeed make sense, but a bit to long
> ago that I looked into systemd unit ordering/dependency semantics more
> closely.
>

Yeah, about the meaning AFAIU myself. I'll test with multi-user.target,
should then work in any case I think. But since we will control the
possible ordering targets anyway, it's not a big problem really after
all.


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