packing with upstart job under ubuntu

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Sat Jan 15 00:48:31 UTC 2011


For single-package source packages you can omit the "package." from
any filename, though it's not really recommended, because it makes it
much harder to expand the source package to add a second binary later.

Scott

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:43 PM, pablo platt <pablo.platt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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