Debian support #45
Description
While the basics are in place it is mostly untested, and there are known issues with what is there. Here is a not complete list of things that would have to be done for this to work well on Debian. This is a tracking issue
- Mtime disk cache (it is slow to scan the file system on Debian)
- Extract and cache metadata from original .debs as well (since that is missing in the package database)
- Early configs should support globs #61
- Handling marked for install more sensibly (we will have to build our own graph probably):
- Recommends/suggests (treat as no edge)
- Priority: required/important/standard/optional (???)
- Essential: yes (???)
- See also https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html
- Helpers for
/etc/rc.d(Debian isn't fully systemdified)- Seems there is just one or two files actually used from init.d/rc.d. The rest is "masked" by natives systemd units. Maybe we can just ignore the exact number assignment (somehow)?
- Resolution: Use ignore_path and forget about it.
- Helpers for
/etc/alternatives(that is going to be painful to deal with otherwise)- They are just symlinks, and
/var/lib/dpkg/alternativeshas an insane format. Punt on this and just do symlinks? - Resolution: Using Rune helper function now to slightly simplify this.
- They are just symlinks, and
- Figure out user handling (Debian doesn't make much use of systemd
sysusers.d)- Resolution: Manually with rune helper functions is the best answer. Even how the postinst scripts do this isn't consistent, so no chance of parsing them.