[ovs-dev] [PATCH] debian: Add SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT to init files

[Greg Rose]

On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 14:41 -0600, Raymond Burkholder wrote:
> > On 24 May 2017, at 14:27, Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 19:56 +0000, root wrote:
> >> From: Raymond Burkholder <ray at oneunified.net>
> >> 
> >> Current versions of systemd in Debian Stretch use
> >> SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT instead of _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT.
> >> Provide both variables in the .init files.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Raymond Burkholder <ray at oneunified.net>
> >> Suggested-by: Guru Shetty <guru at ovn.org>
> > 
> > Maybe this is a silly question but are we sure someone at Debian didn't
> > make a typo?
> > 
> > I mean, why?  Why would they do this?
> 
> Good question.  But there is an answer, and looks like it was a conscious decision, committed back in January:
> 
> http://sources.debian.net/src/systemd/232-23/debian/changelog/?hl=293
> 
> "* debian/extra/init-functions.d/40-systemd: Rename _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT.
>     Rename _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT to SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT to be more
>     consistent with other environment variables which are used internally by
>     systemd, like SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_SYSV."

Well OK then... Now I'm wondering why the original underscore was added!
LOL. That leads to insanity I guess.

Thanks!

- Greg