Autor: Tom Data: Para: dng Assunto: Re: [DNG] Packaging an init script for another package
> On 29 Jun 2024, at 01:28, Rainer Weikusat via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> Tom via Dng <dng@???> writes:
>> I’ve recently upgraded my icinga2 packages from upstream and noticed
>> that the transition from icingadb-redis-server package to
>> icingadb-redis dropped the init script and logrotate.d script.
>>
>> I would like to take the relevant files from the previous package
>> version and create my own local package to hold them. Is there a
>> documented process for a package to install sysv init scripts for
>> another package?
>>
>> Should I try to copy the packaging config of orphan-sysvinit-scripts
>> and adapt it for these icinga init scripts? Or is there a simpler way
>> to get dpkg to install an init script under the name of another
>> package?
>>
>> I’m guessing I can use the standard deb packagename.install file for
>> logrotate.d/ and /etc/default/ files but I’m just not sure how I
>> should be handling the /etc/init.d/ files.
>
> debhelper can handle this. For init.d scripts and /etc/default files,
> that's done by dh_installinit. Ordinarly, it expects files named
> packagename.init and package.name default in the debian/ subdirectory of
> a debianized source tree which will be installed as
> /etc/init.d/packagename and /etc/default/packagename. It's possible to
> use an override target in debian/rules to specifiy a different name, eg,
>
>
> That's from a package called mkpem-tools and it'll install the
> debian/ca-server.init file as init.d script for it (and would install
> ca-server.default if there was one).
>
> dh_installlogorotate also supports this option.
Thank you. That seems to fit easily with what I need to do.
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