Bug#571054: Divert /sbin/initctl to fix start(8) in lucid postinsts.
Junichi Uekawa
dancer at netfort.gr.jp
Sat Mar 6 16:18:23 UTC 2010
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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