On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:

I'm not using systemd and I don't want to switch to systemd on my development machine any time soon.

Are there any specific problems that is holding you back from using systemd? If so, I'd be happy to help sorting them out. -t

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote:

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I'm not using systemd and I don't want to switch to systemd on my development machine any time soon.

Are there any specific problems that is holding you back from using systemd? If so, I'd be happy to help sorting them out.

-t

One problem was the fact that nspawn requires a terminal, so using it from a cronjob is hard or impossible. I asked about it, and Lennart added this to systemd's TODO recently.

The whole nspawn thing puts a bit of a crimp in those of us who us build helpers. But there are exciting workarounds! I was going to post a clever one liner that gets around nspawn, but I am not clever enough to get it on one line. I needed 9. And screen. And you need to manually tell it when the build is done. And you can only build one thing at a time. Those last two are kind of annoying, but whatever. if ! grep pkgbuilder <<< "$(ssh pkgbuild.com screen -ls)"; then ssh pkgbuild.com screen -d -m -S pkgbuilder fi # start build # '-X exec' runs in a clean shell (~, non-tty) and is not usable # '-X stuff' needs everything escaped ssh pkgbuild.com screen -rx pkgbuilder -p0 -X stuff \ "cd\ ~/packages/pkgbuilder-$pkgname/\;\ \ sudo\ extra-x86_64-build\;\ \ sudo\ extra-i686-build\;\ \ echo\ 'Press\ ^a\ d...'$'\015'" # wait for user to detach ssh -t pkgbuild.com screen -rx pkgbuilder -p0 Contact me privately if you'd like to see the rest of the build script - I don't consider it nice enough to post here. -Kyle http://kmkeen.com

On 10/7/12, Jan Steffens wrote:

Notice pkgbuild.com's motd. I already installed a helper to use.

Yeah, I saw that and was not terribly impressed. It trashes stdout/error. Useless. Anyway, whole thing is irrelevant because heftig pointed out that "ssh -t pkgbuild.com ..." works fine for non-interactive commands. The only change us over-scripters need to make is adding '-t'. -Kyle