Re: DHCP dbus name patch

[Antony J Mee <A J Mee ncl ac uk>]

Dear all,

Perhaps someone on the list can clear up this matter once and for all. 
(Dan ??)

Christoph's patch is of cause an important fix. What concerns me however 
is what the name of the
original attachment suggests: "nm-unredhat-0.6.0.patch"

I worry this is another instance of a strange behaviour seen of people 
packaging dhcdbd for
their respective distros.  It seems to happen that people choose to 
patch the dhcdb source so
as to replace com.redhat.dhcp and com/redhat/dhcp with 
url.distro.their.dhcp etc.

It is my understanding that correct DBUS practice is to use the URL of 
the software maintainer
reversed in the service name.  At present dhcdbd is developed and 
maintained by the nice guys
over at redhat.com.  It is also reasonable that the developers in 
agreement with devs from
some other domain eg. freedesktop.org use that URL (as with NM)

But: whatever is chosen should remain constant across systems and 
distributions.

One would never for example choose to rebrand org.gnome.GnomePowerManager or
org.bluez.Manager why should dhcdbd be different?

Robert is this "rebranding" done in Suse too?

Should we perhaps ask the dhcdb providers to consider a move to a 
freedesktop.org url,
so as to prevent this behaviour in many easily offended package builders?

tOnY   (running Gentoo and happy to have an unbodged dhcdbd serve my 
dhcp info via com.redhat.dhcp)



Christoph Brill wrote:

> Find attached a patch that replaces a hardcoded string by a define 
> used at a different place.
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