Bug#776530: dnsmasq: fails to start when dbus is not installed and running systemd

2015-02-11 Thread Simon Kelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 11/02/15 21:56, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 11/02/15 21:26, Simon Kelley wrote: >> Thanks, that looks good, but I think that probably the default >> --enable-dbus should go as well. It's only there for the previous >> use with systemd's dbus met

Bug#776530: dnsmasq: fails to start when dbus is not installed and running systemd

2015-02-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On 11/02/15 21:26, Simon Kelley wrote: > Thanks, that looks good, but I think that probably the default > --enable-dbus should go as well. It's only there for the previous use > with systemd's dbus method. DBus is not enabled by default when > dnsmasq is started by sysvinit. I wondered about this,

Bug#776530: dnsmasq: fails to start when dbus is not installed and running systemd

2015-02-11 Thread Simon Kelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/02/15 09:17, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 at 16:33:31 +, Simon McVittie wrote: >> If I was the maintainer, I'd go for option 2, Type=forking, which >> makes the systemd unit work even more like the init script does >> now -

Bug#776530: dnsmasq: fails to start when dbus is not installed and running systemd

2015-02-10 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 09 Feb 2015 at 16:33:31 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > If I was the maintainer, I'd go for option 2, Type=forking, which makes > the systemd unit work even more like the init script does now - > signalling readiness via the parent process exiting. I'll look into > doing a patch at some poin

Bug#776530: dnsmasq: fails to start when dbus is not installed and running systemd

2015-02-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On 09/02/15 15:29, Simon Kelley wrote: > Of two or three, I'm not sure and I'll take your advice. Two needs no > code changes and adds no dependencies, and that's good, but if there > are advantanges to going with three, then I can handle that by making > the libdbus code conditionally compiled. (

Bug#776530: dnsmasq: fails to start when dbus is not installed and running systemd

2015-02-09 Thread Simon Kelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Simon. Many thanks for the offer of help, not having to wade into the intricacies of systemd is a big win for me. The current arrangements are "something which was made to work without big code changes" so I'm not wedded to using the dbus method at

Bug#776530: dnsmasq: fails to start when dbus is not installed and running systemd

2015-02-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 at 17:37:38 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > When runnning dnsmasq with systemd on a freshly installed system, > without dbus installed, dnsmasq fails to start. It seems like dnsmasq > should depend or at least recommend dbus if it needs dbus in order to > function on a defaul

Bug#776530: dnsmasq: fails to start when dbus is not installed and running systemd

2015-01-28 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.72-2 Severity: serious Justification: fails to start with default init system Thanks for maintaining dnsmasq! When runnning dnsmasq with systemd on a freshly installed system, without dbus installed, dnsmasq fails to start. It seems like dnsmasq should depend or at le