[chef-dev] Re: Proposed RFC for Ubuntu init service checking.

[Lamont Granquist < >]

On Fri Aug 15 11:27:48 2014, JJ Asghar wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I have opened up PR 44[1] in chef-rfc to attempt start a discussion on
> how services should be handled.

And technically, this is more than that.  It means that we can stop 
tying a single provider to a given resource on a given platform.  The 
proliferation of different init systems lately just makes the service 
resource a particular pain point.  We should also be able to deprecate 
the Chef::Platform provider mapping (although I wouldn't bother ripping 
it out for quite awhile, since there are providers in cookbooks out 
there which expect to be able to inject mappings into it (e.g. mysql 
cookbook).  Since this code is added at the provider mapping level it 
means that it'll be transparent to ChefSpec as well and won't break 
anything.

I haven't tried writing an LWRP with the new methods to see how those 
work, but supporting LWRPs should be included in the definition of done.