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[PATCH] gnu: Add gnome-software.

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From: Noé Lopez <noe <at> xn--no-cja.eu>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: terramorpha <terramorpha <at> cock.li>, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>,
 Vivien Kraus <vivien <at> planete-kraus.eu>,
 Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>, 68228 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#68228] [PATCH v3] gnu: Add gnome-software.
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:09:16 +0100

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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Noé Lopez <noe <at> noé.eu> writes:
>
>> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Am Montag, dem 17.03.2025 um 11:15 +0100 schrieb Noé Lopez:
>>>> Surely? The real blocker for me is /etc/machine-id, it seems to need
>>>> to exist for most tests to run, and I suspect also the tests that
>>>> fail with dbus would fail with it too.
>>>> 
>>>> But creating /etc/machine-id leads to a permission error.
>>> Does anything actually read this file?  Because if not, that's just a
>>> dbus warning that can be made non-fatal by setting the appropriate
>>> environment variable.
>>>
>>
>> I got confused, because the fatal warning was actually made by
>> gnome-software (to check if it would be able to start dbus!!!).  I
>> deleted the warning, and added a dbus session, but now its requiring a
>> dbus system session.  Do you know of any way to start one? I couldn’t
>> find any packages doing this, and dbus-daemon --system fails miserably
>> (tries to access /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket).
>
> Did you inspect their CI script/workflow file for clues?
>

Good idea, but it seems they are just using a full Docker image so no
help there it seems.

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