Re: [gentoo-dev] Managing etc/* in an embbeded system

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2015-07-22, o godz. 13:20:10
Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se> napisał(a):

> On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 14:30 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> >
> > Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@×××××××××.se> napisał:
> >
> > > We got an embedded gentoo system where we need to manage many conf
> > > files under /etc that we have
> > > modified and should be under our control when an SW upgrade is
> > > performed.
> > >
> > > Cloning every ebuild where we have modified its conf file(s) under /etc
> > > feels awkward so
> > > I am looking for some other way to do this automatically during SW
> > > upgrade and I figured
> > > this can not be an unique problem for us, so I wonder how other people
> > > have solved this problem?
> > > Our customers will not use emerge directly and we will provide binary
> > > pkgs.
> > >
> > > Any ideas welcome :)
> > >
> > > Jocke
> >
> > Maybe post-phase hooks would help you. Not around a PC right now but I think they're described in portage.5.
> > Long story short, you create per-package env files in /etc/portage/env (you can pin them generically or to a
> > specific version, or package spec via package.env) and declare post_src_install() where you add your custom
> > config files atop the package.
> >
>
> hmm, that sounds interesting but I don't quite get what to do, you think I should copy over /etc/inittab after
> it has been installed by sys-apps/sysvinit with my own version(which is stored where?)

Yes, exactly. You can either copy your own, or modify (sed? patch?)
the standard one. You can store it anywhere, download (unless you
use network-sandbox) from the net or just inline via here-doc syntax.

> This gave me an idea though:
> In /etc/portage/env/install-mask.conf I add
>   INSTALL_MASK="${INSTALL_MASK} /etc/inittab /etc/xxx"
> then in /etc/portage/package.env/install-mask
>   sys-apps/sysvinit install-mask.conf
>   sys-apps/xxx install-mask.conf
>   ...
> (Can I do this from my own custom profile instead? how?)
>
> This should prevent sys-apps/sysvinit to install conf files I want to manage, right?
>
> Then I create my own new ebuild holding all config files I have changed myself.

Sure. Though I don't understand why would you set it per ebuild -- you
can set it in make.conf globally in that case, or in make.defaults in
your profile. If doing the latter, remember to use
INSTALL_MASK="${INSTALL_MASK} ..." if you want to add additional dirs
afterwards.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>