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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20120127/027d9fd7/attachment-0001.mht b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20120127/027d9fd7/attachment-0001.mht new file mode 100644 index 000000000..48983e4bf --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20120127/027d9fd7/attachment-0001.mht @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +[From nobody Fri Jan 27 01:00:44 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) +]
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