On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, at 11:44 AM, Alexander Shorin wrote: > Hi Clemens! > > My own opinion below: > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Clemens Stolle > <clemens.sto...@fastmail.com> wrote: > > - Should we use ubuntu and the PPA instead of building from source? The > > ubuntu base image is 60MB bigger than debian's. > > We don't provide any PPA builds to use, especially for 2.0, today. > Ubuntu vs debian - doesn't matter for me. > > > - Building from git branches is not feasible in official images. Are there > > tags or pre-release snapshots for 2.0? > > There was developer-preview-2.0 branch for that purpose, but it's > outdated for now and quickly becomes after each rebase. For current > state of 2.0 I don't see any point to add special intermediate tags > for reproduceable builds. > Also, it may be a bit rushy to include 2.0 image into officials as > people may accidentally thought that this version is released while > that's not true.
If it's helpful, we can use the ppa:couchdb/dev for this, and use couchdb2 as the package name for the interim. Dropping a 2.0 over top of a 1.x install would be very much against Principle of Least Astonishment. This approach is very common in FreeBSD ports, for example with puppet3 and puppet4 to give people a clear distinction. > > - How does CouchDB handle signals? Currently couchdb doesn’t respond to > > SIGTERM. I’m not sure if this is caused by my wrapper shell script. > > SIGTERM works correctly so far. > Worth clarifying here that Erlang/OTP itself is not signal friendly. There are a number of daemons to help address this, but IIRC all of them have non-ALv2 taints and/or heavy dependencies. https://github.com/ShoreTel-Inc/erld https://github.com/jkingsbery/sighandler https://github.com/erlware/erlnixify A competent C programmer could make short work of a GPL-free version of erld (hint hint) though. Things a signal handler needs to address: - rotating logs SIGHUP? - SIGTERM & friends for shutting down - terminating BEAM if/when it becomes unresponsive a la heart - ... others? The new systemd approach (& presumably docker too) means that the whole of couchdb runs in a namespace which is then cleaned up. I really like this, considering how much effort was consumed in getting the original couchdb script to work correctly. A+ Dave
