Arch Linux

Sorry for the late reply, I'm rather busy right now, and have no access to an Arch system. You can find an updated PKGBUILD here:

http://pastie.org/9618465

As you can see prepare() is no longer necessary as the patches are included upstream. I did try to move the file in pre_install, but unfortunately pacman still complained - I'm guessing installs scriptlets are executed after conflict checks.

Oh, I can see cgmanager has just got updated to 0.32 in [community].

Hi Alad,
Thanks for your reply. Understood you position.

I believe it should be possible with pacman to use pre_install script to move /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service away (backup it) and inform the user that it was done.

Also with post_remove it should be possible to restore the file back (should it exist) and also tell the user about it.

Hey,

The Ubuntu package creates a "divert" for org.freedesktop.systemd1.service so it can coexist with systemd (where it simply refers to /bin/false). As far as I know you can't do this with pacman (yet); file conflicts are checked before operations in an .install file.

So you'd either add a conflict with systemd (losing udev, logind - and keeping logind is the point here) - or make a separate systemd package with the service removed.

As systemd-shim is purely experimental right now, I leave it to the user to manually move the file to say org.freedesktop.systemd1.service.bak before installing. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hi Alad,

I cannot install the package

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
systemd-shim: /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

# pacman -Qo /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service is owned by systemd 216-3

Can't be updated until cgmanager is bumped to 0.32 in [community].