Hi all fellow Debian users! ( just subscribed )
Wanting to become a Debian Developer, i took the 'challenge' from the WNPP
list to package WebCDwriter [
http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jhaeger/webCDwriter/ ].
Now, sometime later, I have the package mostly finished, including:
- Two binary packages, client and server
- Did missing manpages
- Moved executable content from /etc/ to /usr/share, where it belongs
- Confined daemon to /var/tmp ( instead of /home/cdwserver ! )
- Moved documentation to /usr/share/doc, where it belongs
- Debconfig-fied installation
- "MrProper" purge from postinst
I just have a problem somewhere:
When the postinst script launches the daemon ( by means of
/etc/init.d/webcdwriter ), dpkg just 'hangs', waiting for the daemon.
If I kill the CDWserver daemon from another console ( 'killall CDWserver'
), dpkg finishes installing the package succesfully.
Once i start the daemon manually through /etc/init.d/webcdwriter,
everything works as expected.
Having read that Debconf's frontends wait for the closing of descriptors
from children, I patched the daemon's code so that it close()s fds 0 thru 7
and setsid()s after the fork(), to try to ensure it works. This did nothing
to improve the situation.
I have previously asked both my sponsors, and none seem to have any ideas.
One of them suggested I ask here so.... Ideas? Comments? Suggestions?
I will be building a source package [ i had just built binary packages till
now ], so that you can take a look if interested.
I can provide more details, source packages, patches and additional info on
request -- just ask for it!
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
J.L.
