The existing DEB/RPM packages have a lot of differences: they don't execute the same actions when installing or removing the package. They also don't declare exactly the same environment variables at the same place. At the end of the day the global behavior and configuration is *almost* the same but it's very difficult to maintain the scripts.
This commits unifies the package behavior:
- DEB/RPM use the same package scripts (pre installation, post installation etc) in order to execute exactly the same actions
- Use of a unique environment vars file that declares everything needed by scripts (the goal is to delete vars declaration in init.d and systemd scripts, this will be done in another PR)
- Variables like directory paths are centralized and replaced according to the target platform (using #10330)
- Move /etc/rc.d/init.d to standard /etc/init.d (RPM only)
- Add PID_DIR env var
- Always set ES_USER, ES_GROUP,MAX_MAP_COUNT and MAX_OPEN_FILES in env vars file
- Create log, data, work and plugins directories with DEB/RPM packaging system
- Change to elastic.co domain in copyright and control files
- Add Bats files to automate testing of DEB and RPM packages
- Update TESTING.asciidoc
More info on Bats here: https://github.com/sstephenson/bats
Many scripts are used to start/stop and install/uninstall elasticsearch. These scripts share a lot of configuration properties like directory paths, max value for a setting, default user etc. Most of the values are identical but some of them are different depending of the platform (Debian-based or Redhat-based OS), depending of the way elasticsearch is started (shell script, systemd, sysv-init...) or the way it is installed (zip, rpm, deb...). Today the values are duplicated in multiple places, making it difficult to maintain the scripts or to update a value.
This pull request make this more uniform: values used in scripts must be defined in a common packaging.properties file. Each value can be overridden in another specific packaging.properties file for Debian or Redhat. All startup and installation scripts are filtered with the common then the custom packaging.properties files before being packaged as a zip/tar.gz/rpm/dpkf archive.
Simon Willnauer
Tanguy Leroux