[Bug 1633520] Re: Support dbus runtime relocation

[Jamie Strandboge]

"Could snapd be so smart to copy the .service file into
/usr/share/dbus/services/ when the interface gets connected, and unlink
it when it gets disconnected?"

Yes it could and that sounds like a reasonable approach if it is
properly designed, but I think that is a different problem than what PR
#1613 is trying to solve. I mention "properly designed" because "when
the interface gets connected" would have to be expressed as a plug so
that it could be connected/disconnected and as such, likely a different
interface, such as 'dbus-activation-support' or something.

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Title:
  Support dbus runtime relocation

Status in D-Bus:
  Unknown
Status in dbus package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  For example, when running in a snap.

  I ran into this while testing a unity8 desktop session snap.  Session
  services were being dbus-activated, but dbus was running the hardcoded
  paths in the session desktop files.  Which weren't pointed into the
  snap.

  DBus has support for relocating those paths, but it only does so on
  Windows.

  I've added a patch to support $DBUS_ROOT on Unix and relocate paths as
  needed.  I've linked the upstream bug here.  We may want to consider
  patching Ubuntu while we wait for it to land upstream.

  I've attached the patch here too.

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