dbus unit tests

[Alec Leamas]

Hi list,

more on this...

On 05/12/2023 12:47, Alec Leamas wrote:
> On 05/12/2023 12:04, Simon McVittie wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Dec 2023 at 10:13:42 +0100, Alec Leamas wrote:
>>> I'm working with a program (still opencpn) which is about to bring 
>>> some unit
>>> tests using dbus. These tests works outside the sandbox in a native 
>>> build.
>>>
>>> However, they fail when applied in the flatpak build. The reason 
>>> seems to be
>>> that there is no dbus session bus, DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is 
>>> undefined.
>>
>> The autobuilders used by Linux distributions for traditional, non-Flatpak
>> packaging systems like dpkg and RPM typically do not provide a session
>> bus either, so this is a problem that would have to be solved with or
>> without Flatpak.
>>
>> The upstream project (opencpn) should probably use dbus-run-session(1)

Indeed. And as for flatpak-builder this is actually fixed since a year 
ago in a PR [1]. My problem is basically that we are supporting older 
distros with flatpak-builder versions which not has picked up this.

Cheers!
--alec
[1] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-github-actions/pull/83