Workaround:

rm /var/aegir
mkdir /var/aegir
sudo mount -o bind /srv/aegir /var/aegir

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ergonlogic
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Component: Code » Debian package

Is this only in the .deb, or are we talking about something in upgrade.sh or hostmaster-migrate?

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anarcat commented
Component: Debian package » Code

another potential workaround is to change the real root of the aegir install, by changing the home of the aegir user, this seemed to work in another instance here.

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It looks like we're hard-coding the aegir home in aegir2-hostmaster.postinst:

VARLIB="/var/aegir"

Am I mis-reading that? How could one even go about installing with the .debs using a different home? But, I'm not even sure that matters here...

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anarcat commented
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Status: Active » Fixed

i am not sure we can completely fix this in aegir: /var/aegir is managed by the debian package, and while we could mess around and make it created in preinst, that is messy. besides, with the new "distributions-based" system, we are likely to ship the hostmaster source code directly in the debian package, in which case we need to hardcode that path.

still, I have made *some* fix here, by getting the path from the aegir user's $HOME variable. we can review that decision later if we change packaging, but for now the change is localised so it will be easy to change.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.