S6 / slashpackage gotcha

From: Colin Booth <cathexis_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:38:22 -0800

I'm not sure if this is an idiosyncracy with my setup or not, but I had to
build skalibs with --with-default-path=/command:/usr/bin:/bin even with
--enable-slashpackage set. Without that, execlineb was unable to find any
of the execline helper programs.

My confusion was two-fold. First, I'd have expected --enable-slashpackage
to jam /command into the built-in path. Secondly, I thought it odd that you
set the default path in the backing library and not the interface programs.

If it helps, I run s6 in daemontools mode (as opposed to as an init
replacement) and the script that starts s6 from my inittab flushes s6's
environment so I'm guaranteed to end up with the compiled-in path. Like I
said, nothing that couldn't be worked around but there's a good chance that
it'll surprise someone else running s6 on Debian.

Cheers!
Received on Tue Dec 23 2014 - 18:38:22 UTC