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["Brian J. Murrell" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 04:44 +0000, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> A lot of the philosophy behind upstart is that the jobs are simple
> enough that local admins can make changes and easily be able to merge
> them if they update versions.

Yeah.  The need to merge on every single update.  That's a PITA that
does not exist when these changes are sourced from a non-update (and
therefor non-conflict) location.

> This doesn't sound like much of a regression across the old init.d
> script based on the above.

It is when you account for the need to merge on every update vs. having
updates installed completely hands-off.

> You still had to modify the init.d script to
> declare any proxy variables etc.

No I didn't.  The old init.d used to source /etc/default/mythtv-backend
where such localizations could be maintained.

> I'm curious, what does GNOME modify when you answer positively to the
> question it asks about applying system wide?

I don't know.

> Is it a gconf key or a
> file that's sourcable?  That might be a good starting point for
> getting
> this type of data pulled into the job.

Indeed.

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can't set environment variables in startup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668810
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Status in Mythbuntu, Ubuntu derivative focused upon MythTV: Triaged

Bug description:
Since converting to an upstart job, the mythtv-backend start job is unable to specify environment variables to be set in the mythtv-backend process.  The example on hand is proxy setting variables.  My backend has to use a proxy in order to use the Internet and now there is no way to tell it short of hacking the upstart job itself, assuming I even understood it's syntax.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mythtv-backend 0.23.1+fixes26732-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.var.log.mythtv.mythbackend.log: 2010-10-30 13:11:40.330 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: mythbuntu
Date: Sat Oct 30 13:11:54 2010
Installed_mythplugins-dbg: 0.0
Installed_mythtv-dbg: 0.0
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mythtv