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Re: Customized Upstart Jobs/Overrides

 

So that would work well for the session jobs, but we would need system jobs
as well.  Perhaps --confdir could be extended to allow for multiple
directories for system jobs?

Thanks
Chris


On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Iain Lane <laney@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:08:27PM -0400, Chris Wayne wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One of the customizations we've identified as necessary is support for
> > upstart jobs or overrides shipped in the custom tarball.  Currently, we
> > ship some upstart jobs in the ubuntu-touch-customization-hooks package,
> but
> > those should be separate from the rootfs.  What would be the best way to
> > accomplish this?  The requirement as always is that the jobs would have
> to
> > live in /custom.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, Upstart looks in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/upstart for user
> session job configuration (and override) files. If you're not already,
> you could prepend /custom to this list and then dropping overrides into
> /custom/upstart should work.
>
> I don't think this applies to system jobs though, and I'm not sure what
> the answer would be there, if you need that.
>
> Cheers,
>
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