I need a service enabled after dinit installation and before reboot, while dinitctl doesn't enable services until reboot.

[Folaht]

Hey there!

I'm trying to build a Artix dinit box using packer.
There's only one problem: packer needs SSH to be enabled after dinit installation and before the next reboot,
or it won't be running any further scripts and finish building the box.

This means I either need dinitctl to be able to run before reboot,
or have the ssh service enabled without using dinitctl.

How do I solve this dilemma?

[davmac314]

From the manual page for dinitctl:

      enable  Persistently enable a waits-for dependency between two services.
              This is much like add-dep but it also starts the dependency if
              the dependent is started (without explicit activation, so the
              dependency will stop if the dependent stops), and it creates a
              symbolic link in the directory specified via the waits-for.d
              directive in the service description (there must be only one
              such directive) so that the dependency will survive between
              sessions.

That last bit tells you how you can enable a service for the next boot - create a symbolic link (or any file, actually), with the correct name (sshd?) in the waits-for.d directory for the boot service (which in Artix is normally /etc/dinit.d/boot.d).

[Folaht]

That works for artix.
Unfortunately not for packer, so I'm going to have to figure out what the real issue is with packer.