debian *-run packages

debian *-run packages

[Adam Megacz]

I noticed that some packages (such as socklog) have a *-run variant
(ie socklog-run) holding their runit scripts.  However, all of the
examples I've found so far are packages that don't already have legacy
/etc/init.d/ scripts.

Lately I've been using the following commands manually to make many of
debian's packages (which have /etc/init.d/ scripts) run under
supervision using these commands:

  DAEMON=xxx
  dpkg-divert --quiet --rename /etc/init.d/$DAEMON
  ln -s /usr/bin/sv /etc/init.d/$DAEMON

It occurred to me that, given a library of run-scripts for a bunch of
debian packages, one could easily automatically generate a debian
*-run package for each script which contained the run-script, a
postinst with the above lines, and a prerm that undoes them.  The
$A-run package would depend on $A, ensuring that uninstalling $A would
first uninstall $A-run.

Anyways, I was thinking of throwing together a script to crank out 77
packages from this webpage:

  http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html

Does this sound like a sensible idea, or is there some better plan
for runit-izing debian -- in the very near future -- in the works?

  - a