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

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

For the migration plan from upstart -> systemd, we intended to run
system upstart as pid2, with systemd as pid1.

For that to work, upstart should process and launch all of it's jobs as
normal, apart from it should skip/set to manual all jobs that are
handled by systemd.

To achieve that we were thinking for system upstart to support multiple
--confdirs, and systemd would then start upstart with "/etc/init" and
"/lib/systemd/upstart/" directories, with .override files either shipped
or generated by systemd setting jobs to manual.

Thus regardless of the OEM requirements, we do need this functionality
in upstart soon enough to unblock further work on systemd migration.

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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:
  In Progress
Status in “upstart” source package in Utopic:
  In Progress

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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