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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-09-27 08:43:10 +0200
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2021-09-27 09:19:02 +0200
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man: refresh description of sysvinit compat for services
The existing text must have been written before systemd-sysv-generator was created. We don't create the wrappers dynamically since a long time. Also add more links and make the description conditional on "if compat is enabled".
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diff --git a/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml b/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml
index 14ab932fed..e9f318b549 100644
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+++ b/man/systemd-sysv-generator.xml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
that creates wrapper .service units for
<ulink url="https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/sysvinit">SysV init</ulink>
scripts in <filename>/etc/init.d/*</filename> at boot and when
- configuration of the system manager is reloaded. This will allow
+ configuration of the system manager is reloaded. This allows
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
to support them similarly to native units.</para>
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.special</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for more details.</para>
+ <para>Note that compatibility is quite comprehensive but not 100%, for more details see <ulink
+ url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Incompatibilities">Incompatibilities with
+ SysV</ulink>.</para>
+
<para>SysV runlevels have corresponding systemd targets
(<filename>runlevel<replaceable>X</replaceable>.target</filename>).
The wrapper unit that is generated will be wanted by those targets