Bug 55749 – User Mode Linux (UML) init scripts

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Jacob Joseph 2004-06-30 21:12:45 UTC]

I've written some simple configuration and init scripts for management of UML instances in the standard gentoo way.  I have not yet written an ebuild to automatically install these, and am now asking for suggestions as to how I might get these scripts into portage.

I've documented and posted the source to http://jjoseph.org/linux-work/uml_gentoo  This page also documents my associated network changes, discussed in bug 55394.  They may be ignored for the purposes of this bug.

It is possible this bug does not belong to the "ebuilds" component.  Please advise as to where it should be placed.

Thanks,
-Jacob

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-10-14 20:18:48 UTC]

could you outline the uml stuff here (ignoring the networking aspects) ?

like what additional scripts would you like to see added and what changes to files must be made to support uml ?

[Comment 2 Jacob Joseph 2004-10-15 14:34:23 UTC]

Thanks much for responding to this bug.

Perhaps that page, having the networking stuff included, makes things too complicated.  In short, for a given UML, two files are required: a configuration file an an init script.  Configuration scripts are named /etc/conf.d/uml.machine with matching init scripts /etc/conf.d/uml.machine.

If you think it would help get into portage, I could certainly tar these up and create a quick ebuild to do the installation.

Thanks again.  -Jacob

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-10-15 14:43:34 UTC]

post the two files here as attachments

the networking stuff is undergoing its own evolution which is why i dont want to touch that aspect

[Comment 4 Jacob Joseph 2004-10-15 14:58:00 UTC]

Created attachment 41920 [details]
/etc/conf.d/uml.ludo

This is the configuration file, to be read by the init script.

[Comment 5 Jacob Joseph 2004-10-15 14:59:10 UTC]

Created attachment 41921 [details]
/etc/init.d/uml.ludo

Init script to read the above config file.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2004-10-15 15:06:47 UTC]

ok, so i think we should add these to the usermode-utilities package

that work for you ?

[Comment 7 Jacob Joseph 2004-10-16 17:10:09 UTC]

That certainly seems like a good place to me.  I suggest 'uml.uml0' as a better default name than ludo, which is just one of my uml's.  I've also clarified one of the comments in the configuration and have commented the dependency on my bridging network script from the init script.  I'm keeping that stuff separate in bug 55394.

Thanks.  -Jacob

[Comment 8 Jacob Joseph 2004-10-16 17:12:11 UTC]

Created attachment 41992 [details]
/etc/conf.d/uml.uml0

[Comment 9 Jacob Joseph 2004-10-16 17:12:56 UTC]

Comment on attachment 41992 [details]
/etc/conf.d/uml.uml0

Updated configuration

[Comment 10 Jacob Joseph 2004-10-16 17:13:38 UTC]

Created attachment 41993 [details]
/etc/init.d/uml.uml0

Removed net.bridge0 dependency.

[Comment 11 solar (RETIRED) 2004-10-16 19:03:07 UTC]

Would you mind assigning the copyright over to gentoo and putting yourself as the orig author.

cat /usr/portage/header.txt

[Comment 12 Jacob Joseph 2004-10-17 17:45:26 UTC]

Created attachment 42076 [details]
/etc/init.d/uml.uml0

Assign copyright to Gentoo.

[Comment 13 SpanKY 2005-02-11 19:44:55 UTC]

giving over to someone who actually knows UML and can take care of this :)

[Comment 14 Jonathan S. Romero 2005-04-25 16:32:24 UTC]

Any idea when this might be moved into the official portage tree?  If more testing is required before this is done, I have told J.Joseph that I would go ahead and do this.

[Comment 15 SpanKY 2005-08-01 13:30:33 UTC]

base-system does not maintain UML

this script belongs in usermode-utilities, not baselayout

[Comment 16 Alec Warner (RETIRED) 2007-04-01 02:59:01 UTC]

I'm going to call this closed due to inactivity; it's years old and I have no idea if they still work with 2.6-UML stuff.