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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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Provisioning
Some things a classroom needs cannot be installed by the classroom
package itself: they need the network, and they need the apt lock that
dpkg is holding for the whole of the package's postinst.
ekklesia-classroom-provision.service runs after every boot and does
them. It is a oneshot unit that nothing else waits on, so it never
holds the classroom up, and it is not allowed to fail the boot: a
machine with no DVD codecs is still a working classroom.
The package 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. The
next boot is a few seconds away and is a clean place to work.
To provision without waiting for a reboot:
sudo classroom-provision
Each step checks whether it is already done and returns immediately if so. A provisioned machine costs nothing; a machine that was offline the first time gets another go at the next boot.
journalctl -u ekklesia-classroom-provision
Google Chrome
Chrome is not in Debian and a classroom is not usable without it, so a fresh machine installs it itself rather than waiting for someone to do it by hand on every box.
classroom-chrome-setup adds Google's signing key to
/etc/apt/keyrings/google-chrome.gpg and their repository to
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list — the same path Google's own
package manages, so the two cannot become two copies of the same
repository — then installs google-chrome-stable. Using the repository
rather than a one-off .deb means Chrome keeps getting security updates.
Run it by hand with sudo classroom-chrome-setup. It returns
immediately if Chrome is already installed.
The Chrome policies in /etc/opt/chrome/policies/ are shipped by the
classroom package and apply as soon as Chrome exists.
DVD codecs
Only for rooms with DVD_ENABLED=true. See dvd.md.
What provisioning does not do
It never upgrades or reconfigures anything already installed, and it never touches a repository it did not add. Classroom software updates are the OTA channel's job, not this.