feat: provision Chrome and DVD codecs without a manual step

A fresh classroom needed two things installed by hand on every box:
Google Chrome, which is not in Debian, and the DVD codecs, which Debian
cannot ship. Both now happen on their own.

ekklesia-classroom-provision.service runs after every boot and does the
work that needs the network and the apt lock, neither of which a package
postinst can have. Each step returns immediately if it is already done,
so a provisioned machine costs nothing and a machine that was offline
the first time gets another go at the next boot. Nothing there is
allowed to fail the boot: a classroom with no DVD codecs is still a
working classroom, and it says so in the log rather than silently.

The postinst enables the service but deliberately does not start it.
Every OTA update reboots the moment the install finishes, and an apt run
killed by that reboot would leave dpkg half-configured.

Chrome comes from Google's own repository rather than a one-off .deb, so
it keeps getting security updates. Google's package migrates whatever we
write into a deb822 file of its own, so the repository is looked for
across every source file instead of only the one we would write;
otherwise a machine that had Chrome removed would end up with two copies
of the same repository.

The DVD codec helper previously assumed deb822 sources and did nothing
on a machine using a classic /etc/apt/sources.list, which is what the
hardware actually runs. It now handles both formats, and only ever adds
a missing component to an existing Debian entry — so it cannot produce a
duplicate repository or a duplicate component however many times it
runs, and third-party repositories like Chrome's are never touched. It
also answers libdvd-pkg's debconf questions, so nothing blocks on a
prompt in a service with no terminal.

Tested against fixture APT trees for classic sources.list, deb822
.sources, contrib already enabled, repeated runs, third-party
repositories and the awkward real lines: bracketed options, indentation,
trailing comments and flat repositories.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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ekklesia
2026-09-04 21:33:44 -05:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent c81fc1b0b9
commit a3dba6e8fb
10 changed files with 858 additions and 52 deletions
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@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/classroom-dvd
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/classroom-dvd-css-setup
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/classroom-notify-test
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/classroom-notifications
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/classroom-chrome-setup
chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/classroom-provision
# Reading the optical drive needs group cdrom. Takes effect at the next
# login, which the OTA reboot provides.
@@ -73,4 +75,17 @@ systemctl daemon-reload || true
systemctl enable ekklesia-classroom-update.timer || true
systemctl start ekklesia-classroom-update.timer || true
# Google Chrome, and the DVD codecs when the room has a drive, are
# fetched by the provisioning service at the next boot.
#
# Deliberately enabled but not started here. It cannot run during this
# script anyway, because dpkg holds the apt lock throughout. Starting it
# straight afterwards would race the reboot that an OTA update performs
# the moment this install finishes, and an apt run killed by that reboot
# leaves dpkg half-configured. Every OTA reboots, so waiting for the next
# boot costs nothing and cannot corrupt anything.
#
# A failure there must never fail this installation.
systemctl enable ekklesia-classroom-provision.service || true
exit 0