Bug 35306

Summary:	dbus-specification should document the .service search paths
Product:	dbus	Reporter:	Simon McVittie <smcv>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Simon McVittie <smcv>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	John (J5) Palmieri <johnp>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart, walters
Version:	1.4.x	Keywords:	patch
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
URL:	http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~smcv/dbus/log/?h=doc-search-paths-35306
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:	35229
Bug Blocks:	21620, 36164
Attachments:	spec: document the search path for session services [2/2] spec: document how to install session .service files

Description Simon McVittie 2011-03-14 09:15:44 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #35229 +++

dbus-specification should mention the search paths for .service files, at least on Unix.

Session bus:

    - first ${XDG_DATA_DIRS}/dbus-1/services as defined by the XDG basedir spec
    - then any implementation-specific locations

System bus:

    - first ${XDG_DATA_DIRS}/dbus-1/system-services, again as defined by
      the XDG basedir spec
    - then /lib/dbus-1/system-services for early boot (Bug #35229)
    - then any implementation-specific locations

/lib means /lib, not /lib64 or /lib/multiarch-tuple, even if it's not where shared libraries would be put; it's specifically being used as an early-boot analogue for /usr/share.

Comment 1 Simon McVittie 2011-04-12 08:32:30 UTC

Created attachment 45533 [details] [review]
spec: document the search path for session services

This fixes half the bug: it documents the search path for session services, which is uncontroversial. See Bug #21620 for discussion of what the search path for system services should be.

Comment 2 Simon McVittie 2012-02-08 07:33:49 UTC

Repurposing this for "just the session bus". The system bus search path can be documented as part of Bug #21620.

Also in git if you prefer reviewing that way:

ssh://people.freedesktop.org/~smcv/dbus.git doc-search-paths-35306

Comment 3 Simon McVittie 2012-02-08 08:14:39 UTC

Created attachment 56757 [details] [review]
[2/2] spec: document how to install session .service files

Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35306
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>

Comment 4 Lennart Poettering 2012-02-09 10:47:46 UTC

Both patches look goot to me.

Comment 5 Simon McVittie 2012-02-10 02:30:10 UTC

Thanks, fixed in git for 1.5.10.

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