packing with upstart job under ubuntu

pablo platt pablo.platt at gmail.com
Fri Jan 14 23:43:33 UTC 2011


man dh_installinit says the name should be
debian/package.upstart
but you said it should be
debian/upstart
so is there an error in the man page?

Is it a bug that dh_make doesn't create upstart.ex file?


On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Clint Byrum <clint at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 01:15 +0200, pablo platt wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm trying to understand how to include an upstart job when packaging
> > a .deb for ubuntu.
> > Ubuntu wiki mentions dh_installupstart but I couldn't find it:
> >
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/KarmicUpstartPackagingPolicy
> >
> > dh_make creates the init.d.ex example file but there is no upstart.ex
> > file.
> > Am I suppose to just drop the file and use the install file to tell
> > the package where to put it?
> >
>
> You'll want to use dh_installinit actually.
>
> man dh_installinit should answer most of your questions, but at the most
> basic single binary package example, ship your job file in
>
> debian/upstart
>
>
>
>
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