Re: DisplayManagerRework: how to handle upgrades?

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On Sat, 11.08.12 21:54, alekcejk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (alekcejk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> > OK,  so we have
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayManagerRework#How_To_Test
> > 
> > that tells one how to enable the display manager of your choice, via
> > systemctl enable --force xyzdm.service
> > 
> > But, how to handle upgrades? (or is this case already handled somehow?)
> > 
> > Off the top of my head, perhaps create some sort of scriptlet (probably to
> > live in initscripts, since that's what owned prefdm) to parse
> > /etc/sysconfig/desktop to make some educated guess about which dm service to
> > enable.
> > 
> > thoughts?
> > 
> > -- rex
> > 
> 
> This is marked as DONE:
> 
> 8. (Optionally) Patch systemd to parse /etc/sysconfig/desktop at upgrade time 
> and generate a symlink from it that is stored in 
> /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service 
> and ensures that the original display manager choice is kept.
> 
> I have DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" in /etc/sysconfig/desktop 
> but symlink was not generated after Rawhide update.

Hmm, that would suggest that this bit is borked:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/systemd.git/tree/systemd.spec#n300

If you execute that by hand in a shell, does it work for you then?

Lennart

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