On 14-01-15 01:43 PM, Alex Chiang wrote: > 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. >
That is all set in the user session, not at boot. System daemons would need to learn the path some other way. Marc. -- 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
