RPM packages: add support for multiple tor instances

added component::core tor/rpm packaging owner::hiviah priority::medium resolution::fixed status::closed type::enhancement labels

I still think it's a rather ugly hack that should be solved through
virtualization means instead.

But if you provide patch that works for all the supported distros (ELs and
Fedoras) and doesn't negatively affect existing single-instance installations,
I'd merge it.

Ondrej

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-March/006524.html

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tor_multi-instance-initd.sh

init script with multi-instance support

Added a first version - it is based on the debian init script from #14995 (closed) (the improvements in this version will go back into #14995 (closed)'s).

For easy drop-in testing the attached file has no RPM placeholder (you can simply place it in /etc/init.d/tor), but the final version would have the RPM placeholder.

I tried to match the outputs and return codes from the old script (to a certain extent) so that we try to not break stuff if anyone parses the output.

Tested on CentOS 7 so far. If the general approach is ok, I will clean it up and test it on additional distributions (F20,21, older CentOSes).

Trac:
Status: new to needs_review

You can also find it here https://github.com/nusenu/tor-multi-instance-initscripts/blob/master/rhel/tor

I merged it into 0.2.6 branch.

For next time, please clone the whole repository and do changes upon the selected file (so that repository can be directly pulled from and merged).

I built some testing packages: https://people.torproject.org/~hiviah/multiinstance/

The packages are not signed, you have to "yum localinstall" them. They could use some testing. I already gave it a bit spin on EL6 and Fedora 21, but more testing is better (in more configurations).

Also present in 0.2.6.4 packages that have been just uploaded.

Trac:
Resolution: N/A to fixed
Status: needs_review to closed

closed

moved to tpo/core/rpm-package#14996 (closed)

RPM packages: add support for multiple tor instances

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