On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 14-01-14 05:46 PM, Alex Chiang wrote: > > > > Speaking with Steve Langasek yesterday, I got strong guidance that all > > per-device configs really need to live in the customization tarball. > > > > And the customization tarball is only allowed to drop files into > > /custom and $HOME. > > Please don't put stuff in $HOME, that's not appropriate for system stuff like > udev rules and device configs.
Didn't mean to be confusing. /custom and $HOME are the 2 options where the tarball is allowed to put stuff. We choose the appropriate location depending on the use case. So I agree -- we do not put system stuff like udev rules into $HOME. :) > >>> I propose that we try and tackle this before it becomes a problem. Do we > >>> have a > >>> plan for this already? > >>> > >>> If we don't have a plan quite yet, as a first step, I propose that we > >>> patch > >>> powerd and apparmor to look in XDG_DATA_DIRS instead of just /usr/share/ > >>> for its > >>> configs. If we do this, we can drop any needed configs into a custom > >>> tarball > >>> (which includes /custom/xdg/data, which is included in XDG_DATA_DIRS), and > >>> therefore keep the rootfs as device-agnostic as possible. Does this seem > >>> reasonable? > > XDG_DATA_DIR is a weird variable to be using for system daemons, IMHO. Where > does it get set? I'm ok with defining a location, but mixing unrelated stuff > with xdg doesn't sound like a good idea to me. There is a package (seeded, I think?) called ubuntu-touch-customization-hooks: lp:ubuntu-touch-customization-hooks In the package, there is an upstart job that sets this: usr/share/upstart/sessions/custom-env.conf I think we chose XDG simply because we had to choose something, and it minimized the number of packages we'd potentially have to patch. If there is a better location for system daemons, we're open to suggestions. Keep in mind that all daemons would have to learn about this new place to look for config files. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
