Should either split these daemons out from systemd, or always have
systemd installed. In any case, I'm going to add requires on this in
gnome-control-center.
Daemons will work under sysvinit. Just need to be installed.
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Regards,
Olav
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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
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Regards,
Olav (on behalf of the release team)
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