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  • From: Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>
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  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] [Fwd: GNOME 3.4 will rely on hostnamed, localed, timedated D-Bus API]
  • Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:48:09 -0600

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Olav Vitters <olav AT vitters.nl>
To: distributor-list AT gnome.org
Subject: GNOME 3.4 will rely on hostnamed, localed, timedated D-Bus API
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:56:25 +0100

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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