Hi Rafal! I have started working on making libgum work in offline mode. Its doable and I should come back to you within 2-3 days. I will also add support for "offline" to gum-utils. One thing to keep in mind is that you guys should use libgum (with offline support) instead of gum-utils to avoid cases like error handling etc.
The way I will change libgum is that user should specify the offline mode when calling the APIs at object creation time. e.g. GumUser * gum_user_get_sync (gboolean offline, uid_t uid); Its better to let the 'user' of the 'libgum'/'gum-utils' to decide whether it wants offline mode or not rather than automagically switching to one or the other mode on the fly. Btw how do you detect if a daemon is running or not? iterating through 'proc' may not be the best solution that can work out in environments like yocto or at image creation time. BR imran ________________________________________ From: Rafał Krypa [[email protected]] Sent: 17 October 2014 20:25 To: Zaman, Imran Cc: Ohly, Patrick; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dev] Gumd usage in building images On 2014-10-17 16:14, Zaman, Imran wrote: > Hi Rafal/Roman! > > I agree with patrick, and consequently: > > In order to make life easier, I have added "offline" support in gumd, which > means that gumd can be run as simple binary to add/del/update/get user/group. > No (p2p) dbus is needed. > > offline mode: user will be added and gumd will exit immediately > # gumd -o -a --username=user1 --usertype=4 (e.g.) This is fine and solves the problem. But I'd like to suggest other approach, already mentioned by Patrick: > For gumd, a mode where the client tool embeds the daemon code directly > would be the best solution IMHO. This is the same approach that we used in cynara and security-manager. It greatly simplifies usage of the client library, making the client work (to some extent) in the same way for both off-line and on-line modes. The exact approach we used was to: - move some parts of the deamon code to a separate library - link daemon with it to keep it working as usual - link client with it to enable offline mode - inside client implementation, if daemon is not running, invoke the target routines directly instead of sending requests to daemon What do you think about doing something similar for gumd? This would allow simple usage of "gum-utils" during both image-creation time and run-time. Best regards, Rafal Krypa > > non-offline mode (it needs either p2p dbus or system bus): > # gumd > > The changes have already been merged and pushed to tizen, and should show up > in next Tizen common release (hopefully on monday). > Please make sure that you use gumd with version 0.0.6. > > Roman, please test user creation at image level with gumd 0.0.6 and let me > know if you face any issues. > > BR > imran > ________________________________________ > From: Dev [[email protected]] on behalf of Patrick Ohly > [[email protected]] > Sent: 17 October 2014 10:37 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dev] Gumd usage in building images > > On Fri, 2014-10-17 at 09:18 +0200, Dominig ar Foll (Intel OTC) wrote: >> Hello; >> >> when looking at off line mode (use during image creation) remember that >> we have a fast growing community planing to use Yocto and so your >> solution needs to work with Yocto as well. > For those not familiar with Yocto, some background: > * Tools manipulating the root filesystem typically get compiled > for the host system (for example, your Intel-based laptop > running some Linux distro) and then get invoked to modify files > used in the target (for example, ARM). Make sure that your files > don't have architecture dependencies (LSB vs. MSB, 32 vs 64). > * If that's not possible, tools are run under qemu. > * chroot is not used (because it would require root privileges), > so tools need to support manipulating files not at their final > destination (for example, tmp/sysroot/usr/ instead of /usr). > * The environment prepared for the tools only consists of env > variables. There's no concept of spawning additional daemons > (doesn't matter whether it's dbus-daemon or gumd). > > For gumd, a mode where the client tool embeds the daemon code directly > would be the best solution IMHO. A --sysroot parameter similar to gcc > would probably be useful/needed, too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Finland Oy Registered Address: PL 281, 00181 Helsinki Business Identity Code: 0357606 - 4 Domiciled in Helsinki This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/dev
