Re: [Monotone-devel] Debian package enhancements

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

Tomas Fasth wrote:
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> > > Matthew, all,
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> > > I have a few comments to your suggested patch.
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> > > The debian files have changed in repository since the release of
> > > monotone 0.19. You may want to update your patch to reflect those
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> > How can we get together on this debian package?
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> Ah, yes. I'm sorry for lack of response, but I have been busy
> elsewere. I suggest we leave the current binary package alone and
> instead create a complementary second binary package, named
> "monotone-server" or similar, containing the scripts and
> configuration needed to run monotone as a network service in the
> background. I would like to use runit to supervise it, and the
> monotone-server package will therefore depend on the runit package.
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> Does it sound sane? If it does, we can move forward right away.

Hmmm... monotone-server package...  Depends on the client, and install 
the stuff for the server.  That sounds ok, although it could just as 
well go in the same package.  But I guess that could work.

> In what state is your patch currently? How much of it do you think
> is compatible or useful in a runit scenario?

I don't know anything about runit so I can't comment on that.  As for 
the status of my patch, basically it is an init script, and an 
/etc/default/monotone file.  We need to add default hooks.lua file, and 
some postinstall magic to create a database.

What would be very useful is a --log option for monotone to specify a 
file to place output in rather than the console.  That way using my 
current scripts you could get log output and start-stop-daemon would let 
you know if monotone crashed on startup.

But that is where I am now.  Also my primary computer (laptop) was 
stolen, but I can use my work machine until I build myself another.