Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 179580
[PATCH] Add a --root/-r option to chkconfig/ntsysv
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:57:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1 Description of problem: chkconfig needs a --root option to manage the startup services in a system image used for in my case cluster installations. Can be useful for nfsboot too I guess. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): chkconfig-1.3.25 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Not very adapted to sending in patches are we? I guess "chkconfig needs an upstream" could be another bug entry... Additional info:
Created attachment 123966 [details] Add --root option to chkconfig and ntsysv Damn, bugwilla does suck for sending in patches...
Why not run it with 'chroot ... chkconfig ...'?
Hmmm, it works. I don't like chroot much because it relies on having a fully working system in the image while not having proc, dev and all mounted there, but in the specific case of chkconfig it works.
Created attachment 124438 [details] Adds --root option and test script. Alternative implementation based on 1.3.26. Less invasive approach touches fewer modules. Also includes unit_test script for new --root option to chkconfig. Needs translations and man page update.
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chkconfig has yet to grow this functionality. Bill, could you comment on whether you think chkconfig *should* have this functionality, and either merge the patch (which probably needs work by now), or close this bug?
My apologies for the delay. I do stand by comment #2; this is really better done with chroot itself.