my-bindfs-mounts

bindfs mounts helper, with persistence layer

Description

Here resides a kind of framework that lets us instantiate mounts in the way bindfs command does, plus a persistence section, so a list of mounts can be stored in a support file.

Folder Structure

It's really simple, aimed to enable program distribution under different formats.

• src: contains all the real code on the solution.
• snap: configurations to create a snap package on the project.
• Makefile: configurations to install the package but using the ubiquitous make tool.

Source Code Explanation

Next an explanation of each file here defined:

• src/usr/bin/my-bindfs-mounts: Command aimed to feed persistence file with mounts defined, along with options. By typing my-bindfs-mounts you'll get a list will all possible options.

• src/etc/default/my-bindfs-mounts: Persistence file with all mounts to handle. Each line represents a bunch of args to pass to bindfs command, so you can manually change things here; just, be careful to not insert invalid options.

IMPORTANT: this process does NOT create ORIGIN and DESTINATION paths. You will have to ensure both of them exists previously.

Makefile

Clone the project and, inside of it, run:

sudo make install

Done! For upgrades, simply clone the project again and run the previous command again.

To remove simply run sudo make uninstall.

Snap Package

Check snap folder with all configuration information ready to build a snap package. More info about snaps here https://docs.snapcraft.io/snaps/intro.

Commands to trigger package creation can be run from this project's root level.

TODO:

• Check how to create a cleaner snap package. So far, when run snapcraft cleanbuild command, everything goes great, but there's a .bz2 file inside the created snap that has everything this repo has, even .git folder, and that's how that's published. No Bueno!

Ubuntu PPA (legacy)

THIS HAS BEEN DEPRECATED, NO LONGER CREATING .deb PACKAGES.
Left this here for future reference.

You can find the package as a PPA here https://launchpad.net/~dalguete/+archive/ubuntu/my-bindfs-mounts

Sidenote: About My Experience Creating .deb Packages Plus Ubuntu's PPA

http://dalguete.github.io/#about-my-experiences-creating-deb-packages-plus-ubuntus-ppa