[tor-dev] RPM: migration to systemd service

Thu Aug 14 14:47:51 UTC 2014

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>> Ondrej Mikle:
>>> If possible, I'd like to avoid the if-defs. Do you perhaps have
>>> a tip how to make the spec file "nice" and have it work both
>>> with old startup script and systemd? Maybe some patch?
>> 
>> I would not mind having clean separated per-distribution spec
>> files. That way you can basically reuse the complete spec file
>> from the distribution and you would have systemd support without
>> having to think about it - they probably have had their fair
>> amount of testing.
>> 
> 
> I spent about a day adjusting and merging the Fedora's systemd
> tor.spec. However, it won't build the git source (e.g. with
> LIBS=-lrt ./autogen.sh && ./configure && make dist-rpm). There is
> something missing in the .spec which makes rpmbuild fail on not
> finding the correct source directory, but I wasn't able to figure
> why that happens as rpmbuild is quite hard to debug.

I'd like to have a look at your attempts.

Is there something wrong with the rpm-tor git repo?

git clone https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/hiviah/rpm-tor.git
Cloning into 'rpm-tor'...
fatal: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/hiviah/rpm-tor.git/info/refs
not valid: is this a git repository?