Re: [Monotone-devel] Debian package enhancements

[Matthew A. Nicholson]

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

I just checked out runit and it looks very intresting, although I am not 
sure how well we could integrate it into a debian install, without a lot 
of hassel.  Keep in mind that I breifly looked over it.