[oe] [meta-networking][PATCH 2/2] dnsmasq: disable the service by default

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Huang, Jie (Jackie) <
Jackie.Huang at windriver.com> wrote:

> It can be overridden to enable the service in the conf file of the distro
>
> with witch only dnsmasq is used in the images.
>
>
>

Right .. I realized that you can turn it on, but my point was more that if
you are only including
dnsmasq, you wouldn't expect that you'd have to explicitly turn it on ..
and it wasn't the
case that you had to do that previously.

Bruce


> We can also disable the service in the distro conf file instead of in the
> recipe
>
> if it makes more sense.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jackie
>
>
>
> *From:* Bruce Ashfield [mailto:bruce.ashfield at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, February 27, 2017 10:39 PM
> *To:* Huang, Jie (Jackie)
> *Cc:* openembedded-devel
> *Subject:* Re: [oe] [meta-networking][PATCH 2/2] dnsmasq: disable the
> service by default
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 3:09 AM, <jackie.huang at windriver.com> wrote:
>
> From: Jackie Huang <jackie.huang at windriver.com>
>
> The service will fail to start/stop when dnsmasq and
> bind (provides named) are both installed since they
> are using the same port 53:
>
> | dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket for port 53: Address already
> in use
>
> So disable the service by default, if the user really
> want to use two dns servives, the config needs to be
> changed to use different interfaces or ports.
>
>
>
> But what if the user is only using dnsmasq ? (which is the case in the
> images I use).
>
> This would be a behaviour change that they add dnsmasq, but don't actually
> get the
>
> service started.
>
> IMHO if someone is installing two packages that provide the same service,
> they
>
> are more aware of what is going on and can disable one (or the other) ..
> versus
>
> someone that adds a single package that provides a service .. and then
> find out that
>
> it doesn't actually start.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
>
> As reference, other distro like centos/fedora also
> disables the services by default on installation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jackie Huang <jackie.huang at windriver.com>
> ---
>  meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
> b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
> index 424a06b..9c2276f 100644
> --- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
> +++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
> @@ -81,3 +81,4 @@ RPROVIDES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
>  RREPLACES_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
>  RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
>  SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "dnsmasq.service"
> +SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE ?= "disable"
> --
> 2.8.3
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