[From nobody Fri Jan 27 01:00:43 2012 Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:56:24 +0100 From: Olav Vitters <olav@vitters.nl> To: distributor-list@gnome.org Subject: GNOME 3.4 will rely on hostnamed, localed, timedated D-Bus API Message-ID: <20120126235624.GC20474@bkor.dhs.org> Mail-Followup-To: distributor-list@gnome.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) GNOME 3.2 contains code to change: - system hostname - date & time settings (time, timezone, etc) - system locale As there is no standard across distributions, GNOME detected the distribution and for a few distributions, was able to change above settings. Starting with GNOME 3.4, GNOME will rely on the following D-Bus APIs provided by the following daemons: - hostnamed - localed - timedated These daemons are included in the systemd tarball. For the D-Bus API reference, see the links at the end of this email. Recommendation: - systemd only systems: ensure these daemons are packaged and running - systemd+sysvinit systems: put these daemons in a separate package and ensure they are running under both init systems. They do not rely on a running systemd. - other init systems: Please write a _new_ daemon to provide this functionality. The D-Bus API is really simple and instead of patching hostnamed/locald/timedated to support other distributions/init systemd, the recommendation is to just write a new daemon which implements the D-Bus API. Alternatively, (if these daemons do not need to be patched) only compile and package the hostnamed, localed and timedated from the systemd tarball. Note: Ubuntu has written a daemon implementing the hostnamed and localed D-Bus interfaces. Reference: - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePortabilityAndStabilityChart - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/localed - http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658352 -- Regards, Olav (on behalf of the release team) ]