Re: [PATCH] debianize: handle .triggers and .service files

[Uladzimir Bely <ubely@ilbers.de>]

On Tue, 2023-11-14 at 20:54 +0100, 'Cedric Hombourger' via isar-users
wrote:
> Some packages need to update/rebuild the initramfs and this is
> particularly
> slow on Debian systems (which are not using more modern technologies
> such
> as dracut or mkosi). Instead of having each package call update-
> initramfs,
> use a trigger instead to have dpkg defer that call to the very end of
> the
> transaction. Many packages also failed to rebuild the initramfs when
> the
> package gets removed. Demonstrate use with initramfs-fsck-hook-ext4.
> 
> Other packages ship systemd units and usually do this using
> do_install()
> and a postinst script. Such recipes also fail to handle the removal
> of
> such packages. By naming the unit ${PN}.service and putting it under
> debian/, debhelper will generate the necessary maintainer scripts
> (preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cedric Hombourger <cedric.hombourger@siemens.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/debianize.bbclass                            | 8
> ++++++++
>  ...d-on-first-boot_1.4.bb => expand-on-first-boot_1.5.bb} | 6 +-----
>  meta/recipes-support/expand-on-first-boot/files/postinst  | 3 ---
>  .../files/{postinst => initramfs-fsck-hook-ext4.triggers} | 5 ++---
>  ...k-hook-ext4_0.1.bb => initramfs-fsck-hook-ext4_0.2.bb} | 2 +-
>  5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

The discusstion looks a bit unfinished. But the patch itself passes CI
and we are ready to merge it if there are no objections.