Fwd: [avahi] Patch for gentoo compilation

[Trent Lloyd]

yes but many consider that that sucks.

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:48:51PM +0200, Sebastien Estienne wrote:
> Is it possible to setup the mailing list to set reply-ro to
> avahi at lists.freedesktop.org ?
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sebastien Estienne <sebastien.estienne at gmail.com>
> Date: 1 juil. 2005 16:15
> Subject: Re: [avahi] Patch for gentoo compilation
> To: Lennart Poettering <mzzhgg at 0pointer.de>
> 
> 
> 2005/7/1, Lennart Poettering <mzzhgg at 0pointer.de>:
> > On Fri, 01.07.05 01:14, Sebastien Estienne (sebastien.estienne at gmail.com) wrote:
> >
> > > > Same thing in avahi-dnsconfd/Makefile.am. AVAHI_SOCKET is the socket
> > > > of avahi-daemon to connect to. AVAHI_RUNTIME_SCRIPT is the path where
> > > > to put the PID file. Since avahi-dns-confd puts its PID file directly
> > > > to /var/run/ (instead of /var/run/avahi/) this should be cleaned up a
> > > > little anyway.
> >
> > > I made the modifications for AVAHI_SOCKET and AVAHI_RUNTIME_DIR
> > > (using config.h) and also modifyed avahai/simple-protocol.c to use
> > > AVAHI_SOCKET instead of UNIX_SOCKET.
> >
> > Sorry, you made a mistake here. The values of AVAHI_RUNTIME_DIR where
> > different for avahi-dnsconfd and avahi-daemon. The former puts it PID
> > file directly to /var/run/, the latter puts its PID file (and socket
> > file) into /var/run/avahi/. The current setup works only if
> > avahi-daemon has been started once before avahi-dnsconfd, since
> > avahi-daemon contains code to create the avahi subdirectory securely,
> > while avahi-dnsconfd does not. Since avahi-dnsconfd just puts a single
> > PID file in /var/run this should not be a problem. Since
> > avahi-dnsconfd and avahi-daemon run with different priviliges (which
> > is the main reason for not integrating both into a single daemon) I am
> > reluctant to duplicate the subdirectory creation code in
> > avahi-dnsconfd. In short:
> >
> Oh sorry, i think i misunderstood something :)
> I thought you wanted to do something like /var/run/avahi/{daemon,dnsconfd}.pid
> 
> >     avahi-daemon should put its PID file in
> >     /var/run/avahi/pid and its socket file in /var/run/avahi/socket
> >
> >     avahi-dnsconfd should put is PID file in
> >     /var/run/avahi-dnsconfd.pid
> >
> > or something similar.
> Oki i can fix it
> AVAHI_RUNTIME_DIR could be ${localstatedir}/run
> so avahi-daemon would use
> AVAHI_RUNTIME_DIR/avahi/pid (or avahi-daemon/pid?)
> and avahi-dnsconfd would us
> AVAHI_RUNTIME_DIR/avahi-dnsconfd.pid
> 
> About AVAHI_SOCKET, is it good like i did?
> 
> >
> > BTW: avahi-dnsconfd should get an init script too. ;-)
> No problem, is there any dependencies upon avahi-daemon ? i didn't
> know if avahi-dnsconfd needed the socket before starting?
> 
> Shouldn't we rename avahi in avahi-deamon, i think it would be more coherent?
> >
> > Lennart
> >
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.