Extra docs on exactly where to start installing things?

[jywarren]

I see this line is where some PRs start to make changes:

pi-builder/builder/chroot-script.sh

Line 207 in f9481e4

Should we put some comment there and delineate an area where it's ideal to start installing scripts and running git or npm? I assume git is installed, is npm too?

Thank you!

[jywarren]

Looking at #37 to install some NPM stuff...

[jywarren]

Aha, sorry, so i think we need to separately document where to put things on initial install, vs. on each startup.

Maybe we ought to actually make 2 files, called startup and setup, which would be run as root? Then just link to them from the appropriate places? But i'm open to whatever makes sense!

[icarito]

We have two scripts, one runs outside the chroot as the build system (build.sh) and the other inside chroot (chroot-script.sh). Both run as root. The appropriate place to install git and npm etc is chroot-script.sh.

[jywarren]

OK, and the place to put things to run on boot would be in a crontab, potentially? Thanks!

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[icarito]

Oh, yes, I should add these questions to the docs. The canonical way to run stuff on boot is to add them to /etc/rc.local.

[icarito]

In the Camera PR I had to add an empty rc.local because the install script will modify it https://github.com/publiclab/pi-builder/pull/13/files#diff-25aa350b8efc5496496765f60725aa9c
Also this is documented at https://publiclab.gitlab.io/pi-builder/scripting.html#running-scripts-on-startup

[icarito]

The general architecture is that files under /builder/files get copied over to the final image (before chroot script is run).

[jywarren]

awesome, thanks!!!

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