Create symbolic links before starting the service.

[steinybot]

I'd like to be able to create the symbolic links before starting the service.

I'm overriding the start script with the one for Tanuki Wrapper. This script has configuration with relative paths within the application installation directory and it also sets the working directory to the directory of the script. So the script itself needs to be located within the application installation directory (without having to modify the scripts working directory which is not recommended). Then we create a link from the system loader directory to the actual script.

The problem here is that when the post% scriptlet is created via the com.typesafe.sbt.packager.rpm.RpmScripts.postContent(buildSymlinkScript: Option[String]) function, it puts the postinst-template first and then the build symlink script.

[muuki88]

So you want to create a symbolic link after the installation, right? The post-install scriptlet is the correct position.

With 1.1.0-M1 we introduced a new setting maintainerScripts to make it easier customizing these parts. Check out the docs on how to configure your post-inst scriptlet.