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HACKING: Fix login page testing with bind mounts

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Bind mount the whole dist directory. Rebuilding bundles with esbuild
removes and recreates the subdirectories, so that existing bind mounts
will go into the void.
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Martin Pitt 2025-03-24 16:51:30 +01:00 committed by Martin Pitt
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@ -328,20 +328,22 @@ If the above systemd-sysext approach does not work for you, you can also test
changes with some bind mounts.
To test changes to the login page, you can bind-mount the build tree's
`dist/static/` directory over the system one:
`dist/` directory over the system one:
sudo mount -o bind dist/static/ /usr/share/cockpit/static/
sudo mount -o bind dist /usr/share/cockpit
Likewise, to test changes to the branding, use:
sudo mount -o bind src/branding/ /usr/share/cockpit/branding/
Do `mkdir dist/branding` if you run both of these commands at the same time.
After that, run `systemctl stop cockpit.service` to ensure that the web server
restarts on the next browser request.
To make Cockpit use system-installed code again, umount the paths:
sudo umount /usr/share/cockpit/static/ /usr/share/cockpit/branding/
sudo umount /usr/share/cockpit /usr/share/cockpit/branding/
systemctl stop cockpit.service
Similarly, if you change `cockpit-ws` itself, you can make the system (systemd