> Op 27 april 2016 om 19:38 schreef Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl>: > > > > > Op 27 april 2016 om 14:19 schreef Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>: > > > > > > Hi Wido, > > > > Thanks for starting this discussion. I'm not sure exactly how to do it > > either, but I suppose we can exploit post installation step to write custom > > scripts that setup initd or systemd scripts at suitable locations. For this > > we include both init/systemd scripts in the package (let say at some > > location like /usr/share/... and let post install script pick up the > > template and setup inid scripts). This way I think we can explore if there > > is a way to solve for building universal deb package. > > > > No, a postinst file is not the way to go, that I am sure of. > > I'm looking at the Ceph project and how they build their packages. They have > the same issue. I haven't figured it out completely, but they are not doing > this in the postinst or so. > > You should never do that either since dpkg should always know which files it > created when installing a package. >
Working on the packaging: https://github.com/wido/cloudstack/commits/systemd-ubuntu1604 Learning from other projects like Ceph how have seem to have figured this out. It's all WIP. The management server also has to go systemd for example. Wido > Wido > > > Regards. > > > > Regards, > > > > Rohit Yadav > > > > rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com > > www.shapeblue.com > > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > > @shapeblue > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:w...@widodh.nl] > > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 1:40 PM > > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > > Subject: Building Ubuntu 16.04 packages > > > > Hi, > > > > Ubuntu 16.04 LTS was released about a week ago and I want to start on > > packages. > > > > The cool things about the LTS: > > - systemd > > - Java 8 > > - libvirt 1.3.1 > > - Qemu 2.5 > > > > I'm familiar with building DEB packages, but there is something which I > > don't know how to fix yet. > > > > We want to build packages for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04, but the first > > still uses Upstart / sysvinit and the newest uses systemd. > > > > We already have systemd service files in 'packaging/systemd', so that is no > > the problem. > > > > I however don't know how to build packages for 14.04 (Trusty) and 16.04 > > (Xenial) using dpkg-buildpackage. > > > > I see other projects use tools like pbuilder [0], but I don't know how that > > exactly works. > > > > Before I put a lot of effort in this: Does anybody know how to build > > packages for different Ubuntu versions? > > > > Eventually we will end up with packages like: > > > > - cloudstack-agent-XXX~trusty.deb > > - cloudstack-agent-XXX~xenial.deb > > > > Thanks, > > > > Wido > > > > [0]: https://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org/
