[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#625205: Bug#625205: is there a way to automatically start services inside an schroot session?

[Roger Leigh]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 01:05:00AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:09:22PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > If limited to services, we could
> > create a directory e.g. /etc/schroot/autorun and have files in
> > there defining which services to run in which chroot, e.g.
> > 
> > [unstable]
> >   postfix
> >   postgresql-9.0
> > 
> > [unstable]
> >   postgresql-8.3
> > 
> > [stable]
> >   apache
> > 
> > as a simple example.  Any thought on what information is needed
> > would be very useful.
> 
> I think it would be the best way to just have a variable containing a
> list of services to start defined in the script-config file, and
> optionally having a hook to automatically invoke a certain script
> inside the chroot on session creation for more complex things.

One of the features in the new 1.5.2 release will be the ability to
set user-defined variables.  These are then set as environment
variables in the setup script.  So we can just add, for example:

[chroot]
session.services=postfix,apache

and then have a setup script do:

for service in $SESSION_SERVICES; do
  chroot "$CHROOT_PATH" invoke-rc.d "$service" "$action"
done

where $action would be start for begin session, stop for
end session and restart for recover session (I think).


Does that sound OK?


Regards,
Roger

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