The Photon OS project team welcomes contributions from the community.
If you wish to contribute code and you have not signed our Contributor License Agreement (CLA), our CLA-bot will take you through the process and update the issue when you open a Pull Request. If you have questions about the CLA process, see our CLA FAQ or contact us through the GitHub issue tracker.
This page presents guidelines for contributing to Photon OS. Following the guidelines helps to make the contribution process easy, collaborative, and productive.
Please submit bug reports and feature requests by using our GitHub Issues page.
Before you submit a bug report about the code in the repository, please check the Issues page to see whether someone has already reported the problem. In the bug report, be as specific as possible about the error and the conditions under which it occurred. On what version and build did it occur? What are the steps to reproduce the bug?
Feature requests should fall within the scope of the project. Keep in mind that Photon OS is intended to be a minimalist Linux operating system geared toward hosting containerized applications and cloud-native applications.
Before submitting a pull request, please make sure that you can build Photon OS. See Building an ISO from the Source Code for Photon OS.
If you have specs with scripts in %pre
, %post
, %preun
, or %postun
, make sure that you have code that is in appropriate sections for upgrade and install.
%pre
# First argument is 1 => New Installation
# First argument is 2 => Upgrade
case "$1" in
1)
echo 'new install'
;;
2)
echo 'upgrade'
;;
esac
%post
# First argument is 1 => New Installation
# First argument is 2 => Upgrade
case "$1" in
1)
echo 'new install'
;;
2)
echo 'upgrade'
;;
esac
%preun
# First argument is 0 => Uninstall
# First argument is 1 => Upgrade
case "$1" in
0)
echo 'new install'
;;
1)
echo 'upgrade'
;;
esac
%postun
# First argument is 0 => Uninstall
# First argument is 1 => Upgrade
case "$1" in
0)
echo 'new install'
;;
1)
echo 'upgrade'
;;
esac
To enable or deactivate a service in post
, preun
, postun
sections, you can use the following macros.
%post %systemd_post cloud-config.service //enables service
%preun %systemd_preun cloud-final.service //deactivates service
%postun %systemd_postun cloud-init.service //it does not do anything
Expansion of these macros:
%systemd_post() \
if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then \
# Initial installation \
systemctl --no-reload preset %{?*} >/dev/null 2>&1 || : \
fi \
%{nil}
%systemd_preun() \
if [ $1 -eq 0 ] ; then \
# Package removal, not upgrade \
systemctl --no-reload disable --now %{?*} > /dev/null 2>&1 || : \
fi \
%{nil}
%systemd_postun() %{nil}
Note: The systemd_postun
macro does not do anything. The systemd_preun
macro deactivates the service, while systemd_post
macro enables the service.