[packagekit] DBUS configuration

[Robin Norwood]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:01:26 +0100
Sebastian Heinlein <glatzor at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Quoting Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com>:
> 
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:39:02 -0500
> > Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:09:03 +0100
> >> Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 12:44 -0500, Robin Norwood wrote:
> >> > > Does anyone use the PACKAGEKIT_USER business?  It evaluates to
> >> > > 'root' by default, so doesn't really have any effect unless it
> >> > > is set, aside from a slight performance penalty.  We should
> >> > > probably remove it from the shipping configs unless it really
> >> > > is for something.  I didn't want to just make the change for
> >> > > fear of breaking anyone's setup.
> >> >
> >> > Well, it basically just was there for debian, IIRC they don't
> >> > like running things as root. Maybe we can just ensure that
> >> > @PACKAGEKIT_USER@ is root by default, and cut out the explicit
> >> > line. That might be best.
> 
> >> Yeah, I like that plan.  We'll see what the debian guys say,
> >> though.
> >
> > This is done, now.  I replaced 'root' with @PACKAGEKIT_USER@
> > throughout, and remove explicit references to 'root'.  The way
> > things are now, packagekitd and the dbus backend daemons both run
> > as root.  If anyone doesn't like it that way, feel free to fix it.
> 
> Since in Debian/Ubuntu I would use separate users for the daemon and  
> the backend and don't want to ship a patch, I introduced a new  
> configure option --with-backend-user, which defaults to the daemon  
> user. See 8a7a56deae9b9684f3c79dee7f58214e354c9ca8

Cool, looks fine to me.

-RN

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Robin Norwood
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