Corect way to segment groups of services

[mskarbek]

Let's say I have two services: conf and apps. Both type = internal with depends-on.d set to apropriate directiories.
I need conf to finish before apps will start bringing up its dependencies. I don't want to add after = conf to every apps dependency individually and preferably keep the working solution only to apps itself. Any suggestions?

[davmac314]

I don't think there's any really good way to do this, it's not really a supported use case.

There are some options if you're willing to fudge how apps is started. You could have conf be a scripted service (rather than internal) and have it run dinitctl start apps, for example. Then apps and its dependencies will start only once conf has started, as long as you don't also try to start apps independently. (It also means you can't start conf without it starting apps).

[capezotte]

Another hacky idea I can think of is making boot a scripted service that calls dinitctl start conf && dinitctl start apps, or make the conf step a script that is run before dinit is launched.