On 28 May 2015 at 12:56, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Lennart Poettering > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, 27.05.15 13:05, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog ([email protected]) wrote: >> >>> On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Lennart Poettering >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > On Tue, 26.05.15 11:53, Umut Tezduyar Lindskog ([email protected]) wrote: >>> > >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> I was wondering if we have a way to provide vendor default masked >>> >> service? >>> > >>> > Well, so far our thinking was that if the vendor wants to make a unit >>> > completely unavailable he should simply not ship it in the first >>> > place. >>> > >>> > What's the usecase for a vendor masking a unit, but installing it? Why >>> > not remove it in the first place entirely? >>> >>> If we ship a product without the service, we don't have a way of >>> installing it again once the product is deployed. >>> >>> Use case would be: We use one software for a video encoder blade with >>> multiple CPUs. Every CPU runs the same software. We have a special >>> service which should only run on the first CPU. A generator installs >>> the .wants link for the service on first CPU. Another service could >>> try to talk to the special service over dbus causing it to be dbus >>> activated (where special service is only allowed to be up on first >>> CPU). We could install the dbus activation files with generator but it >>> gets messy to offload this logic to a generator. Also, special service >>> can be activated by using systemd's dbus interface. >> >> My recommendation would be to ship the dbus service file always, but >> make it direct to SystemdService=dbus-com.axis.foobar.waldi.service, >> and then manage dbus-com.axis.foobar.waldi.service as a symlink alias >> to the real bus service. All you do in your generator now is create >> the symlink or not create it... >> >> Wouldn't that work? > > For dbus activation it would work but other services can still > activate the service through systemd.
it will attempt to dbus activate non-existing service file.... since there wouldn't be a symlink with a name dbus-com.axis.foobar.waldi.service pointing to anything real, and thus effectively masked, no?! -- Regards, Dimitri. Pura Vida! https://clearlinux.org Open Source Technology Center Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd. - Co. Reg. #1134945 - Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
