[systemd-devel] Socket activation and busname aliases in Network/ModemManager

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/6/20 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>:
>> I presume that to have "bus activation by default", the only change
>> needed would be to change the dbus .service file for modem manager to
>> refer to the SystemdService via it's normal name and not via it's bus
>> alias? Is this the "expected" way to work.
>
> The relevant upstream bug report for ModemManager is [1] and I think
> there is a bit of confusion in the bug report.
> I do like dbus services, which can be disabled via the Alias trick.
> By removing that upstream, I now have to use mask, which means I can
> no longer start the service manually.
>
> To me, [1] looks more like a broken Arch ModemManager package, which
> missed to call systemctl enable ModemManager.service in postinst.

Arch never enables any services by default in its post_install scripts.

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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>