[Bug 1315060] Re: Allow --confdir to look for system jobs in more than one directory

[James Hunt]

We now have a branch in case this really is needed. It's a small change
since Session Inits already support multiple --confdirs.

Note that the whole point of adding the --confdir option originally was
to circumvent the standard /etc/init/ directory, specifically for
testing. What this means is that with the new branch, if you want
Upstart to read jobs from /etc/init/ and /custom/init/ say, you will
have to specify *both* directories on the kernel command-line via the
bootloader:

  --confdir /etc/init/ --confdir /custom/init/

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Title:
  Allow --confdir to look for system jobs in more than one directory

Status in The Savilerow project:
  New
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “upstart” source package in Utopic:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  A requirement from OEMs/Carriers for customization is to allow for
  customized upstart jobs/overrides.  It seems that the best way to do
  this would be to allow --confdir to take multiple directories, so that
  we can include a directory under /custom.

  As for session jobs, I assume we can just set /custom as an
  XDG_CONFIG_DIR, and have /custom/upstart with jobs there.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: upstart 1.12.1-0ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu May  1 12:30:09 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-26 (370 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=610268d4-9acd-4bf8-a1a1-95c88b3ccf59 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-11-23 (158 days ago)
  UpstartBugCategory: System
  UpstartRunningSessionVersion: init (upstart 1.12.1)
  UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.12.1)

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