The better way would be to create a custom distro. As far as I know you can create the etc files at build time this way.
Christian 2018-01-11 23:35 GMT+01:00 Steinar Bang <s...@dod.no>: > How I start karaf and stop it immediately after it has started? > > The platform is karaf 4.1.4 on debian GNU/linux, on amd64. > The karaf is unpacked from a tarball. > > The reason I want to do start and stop karaf, is to modify the etc files > that are touched by a startup, so that they get the exact same md5 > checksum they get after karaf has modified them, before I package up > karaf to become a .deb package. > > I'm trying to improve my deb package and the /etc/karaf files showed up > as modified, even though I hadn't touched them. > > I eventually figured out that it was karaf touching them. Some are > changed a little (they get a lf at the end of the last line), and some > are changed more. > > That the date changes doesn't change the files' behaviour in a .deb > package. But the content changing (and therefore the md5 checksum > changing) affects the behaviour. > > -- -- Christian Schneider http://www.liquid-reality.de Computer Scientist http://www.adobe.com