Re: [mh] Debian packaging?

[Robert J. C. <rj...@gm...>]

Marc,

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Marc MERLIN <ma...@me...> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:50:46PM -0500, Eloy Paris wrote:
>> On 03/04/2013 07:38 PM, Robert J. Clay wrote:
>>
>> >On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Eloy Paris <pe...@ch...> wrote:
>> >
>> >>The only thing that lives outside these two locations is the MH init
>> >>(upstart) script /etc/init/mh.conf.
>> >
>> >     Which I would be most interested in taking a look at, if that's
>> >possible;  I'm not yet familiar with upstart as yet...
>>
>> My /etc/init/mh.conf is attached. MH starts on a "screen" session so I
>> can attach to it to read messages sent to standard output or standard
>> error by running "screen -r <user MH runs as>/".
>
> If you're doing do a debian package, please make a real one.

    Now, there's a rather provocative comment...


> There is no reason to use upstart for this, over a normal initscript

    Why do you assume that I would have the package doing so?  That it
would be "over a normal initscript"? (Since packages from Debian
already take advantage of the fact that upstart can handle a 'normal'
initscript...)


> and a package that will work for debian and ubuntu.

    Do keep in mind that upstart has been an option in Debian for some
time...  And in any case;  using only an upstart init (not that I
planned to do that) would not preclude it being usable in both, since
upstart is in Debian.


> Besides, people who know better run debian on servers, not ubuntu which is a
> desktop bling distro :)

   You're not familiar with the Ubuntu Server Edition?   I haven't
used it myself recently, since I use pbuilder for package building &
so don't actually need to have a ubuntu system for that, and Linux
Containers (lxc) which uses debootstrap to create the file system.





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Robert J. Clay
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