Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.

[Junichi Uekawa]

At Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:33:28 +1100,
Trent W. Buck wrote:
> 
> Package: pbuilder
> Version: 0.196
> Severity: normal
> 
> pbuilder currently creates a policy-rc.d that prevents daemons from
> starting when they are installed to satisfy build dependencies.  This
> works well for sysvinit packages.
> 
> However, when working with Ubuntu Lucid[0] chroots, many daemons use
> upstart instead of sysvinit.  Thus, they ignore policy-rc.d, try (and
> fail) to start, further causing the postinst, dpkg, satisfybuildepends
> and ultimately the entire pdebuild to fail.

Erm... why not fix upstart to respect policy-rc.d ?


> 
> According to CJ Watson of #ubuntu-devel, this can be done by diverting
> /sbin/initctl and substituting a stub.  An example of this can be seen
> in debootstrap's "gutsy" script (excerpt below).  Please add something
> similar, I guess to /usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-modules:mountproc.
> 
>         mv "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon" "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL"
>         echo \
>     "#!/bin/sh
>     echo
>     echo \"Warning: Fake start-stop-daemon called, doing nothing\"" > "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon"
>         chmod 755 "$TARGET/sbin/start-stop-daemon"
> 
>         if [ -x "$TARGET/sbin/initctl" ]; then
>           mv "$TARGET/sbin/initctl" "$TARGET/sbin/initctl.REAL"
>           echo \
>     "#!/bin/sh
>     echo
>     echo \"Warning: Fake initctl called, doing nothing\"" > "$TARGET/sbin/initctl"
>           chmod 755 "$TARGET/sbin/initctl"
>         fi
> 
> [0] In theory this was an issue with earlier Ubuntu releases, but it
>     seems to be far more prevalent in Lucid.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-23-openvz (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
> ii  cdebootstrap                  0.5.5      Bootstrap a Debian system
> ii  coreutils                     8.4-1      GNU core utilities
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
> ii  debianutils                   3.2.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii  debootstrap                   1.0.20     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
> ii  wget                          1.12-1.1   retrieves files from the web
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
> ii  devscripts                    2.10.61    scripts to make the life of a Debi
> ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
> ii  sudo                          1.7.2p1-1  Provide limited super user privile
> 
> Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
> pn  cowdancer                     <none>     (no description available)
> pn  gdebi-core                    <none>     (no description available)
> pn  pbuilder-uml                  <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- debconf information:
>   pbuilder/rewrite: false
> * pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian
> * pbuilder/nomirror:
> 
> 
> 
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