Template Directories for Debian package

[muuki88]

Play generates its logfiles by default under {application.dir}/logs/application.log which messes up the debian uninstall process as the installation directory is not empty.

Maven jdeb solves this by providing a template datatype.

<data>
   <type>template</type>
   <paths>
       <path>/etc/${artifactId}</path>
       <path>/var/lib/${artifactId}</path>
       <path>/var/log/${artifactId}</path>
       <path>/var/run/${artifactId}</path>
   </paths>
</data>

It would be nice to add this to the linuxPackageMapping options. The API could look like

linuxPackageMapping ++= (packageMappingTemplate(
    "/var/log/" + name,
    "/etc/" + name,
) withPermission("0755")

[jsuereth]

That's cool. Where do templates go in the .deb configuration?

Also, should we try to add configuration to play so logging goes to /var/log or /var/run?

[muuki88]

Where do templates go in the .deb configuration?

The debian package system is quite straightforward (to my current point of knowledge). You just create the folder in the directory which is packaged as a .deb file.

/var/log or /var/run

This would be good practices for unix systems. However I have no idea what is concerned as good practices for logging output on windows.

[jsuereth]

Marking this as closed. Thanks for the fix!!!!