daemon.GenericMain: Don't use list of multithreaded daemons

[ganeti-local] / doc / devnotes.rst

diff --git a/doc/devnotes.rst b/doc/devnotes.rst
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@@ -4,18 +4,23 @@ Developer notes
 Build dependencies
 ------------------
 
-Most dependencies from INSTALL, plus:
- - docbook2html, docbook2man from Docbook tools
-   http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/
- - python-sphinx (tested with version 0.6.1) from
-   http://sphinx.pocoo.org/
- - graphviz
-   http://www.graphviz.org/
+Most dependencies from :doc:`install-quick`, plus:
+
+- `GNU make <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/>`_
+- `GNU tar <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/>`_
+- `Gzip <http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/>`_
+- `Docbook tools <http://sources.redhat.com/docbook-tools/>`_
+  (docbook2html and docbook2man)
+- `python-sphinx <http://sphinx.pocoo.org/>`_
+  (tested with version 0.6.1)
+- `graphviz <http://www.graphviz.org/>`_
 
 
 Configuring for development
 ---------------------------
 
+.. highlight:: sh
+
 Run the following command (only use ``PYTHON=...`` if you need to use a
 different python version)::
 
@@ -23,4 +28,34 @@ different python version)::
   ./configure PYTHON=python2.4 \
     --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
 
+
+Packaging notes
+===============
+
+Ganeti is mostly developped and tested on `Debian
+<http://www.debian.org/>`_-based distributions, while still keeping
+adoptability to other Linux distributions in mind.
+
+The ``doc/examples/`` directory contains a number of potentially useful
+scripts and configuration files. Some of them might need adjustment
+before use.
+
+``daemon-util``
+---------------
+
+This script, in the source code as ``daemons/daemon-util.in``, is used
+to start/stop Ganeti and do a few other things related to system
+daemons. Is is recommended to use ``daemon-util`` also from the system's
+init scripts. That way the code starting and stopping daemons is shared
+and future changes have to be made in only one place.
+
+``daemon-util`` reads extra arguments from variables (``*_ARGS``) in
+``/etc/default/ganeti``. When modifying ``daemon-util``, keep in mind to
+not remove support for the ``EXTRA_*_ARGS`` variables for starting
+daemons. Some parts of Ganeti use them to pass additional arguments when
+starting a daemon.
+
+The ``reload_ssh_keys`` function can be adjusted to use another command
+for reloading the OpenSSH daemon's host keys.
+
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