[HEADS-UP] Please test kdbus in Rawhide!

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 19:57 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Heya!
> 
> I'd like to ask everybody to test kdbus on Rawhide. Josh thankfully
> added it to the Rawhide kernel packages, and our systemd RPMs come
> with built-in support, too now. If you are running an up-to-date
> Rawhide system adding "kdbus=1" to your kernel command line is hence
> everything you need to run kdbus instead of dbus-daemon. (No
> additional RPMs need to be installed.) If you do, things should just
> work the same way as before, if we did everything right. By adding or
> dropping "kdbus=1" to/from the command line you can enable kdbus or
> revert back to dbus1 on each individual boot.
> 
> This stuff is opt-in, and we are very keen on getting feedback and
> testing for this. The version of kdbus in Rawhide we consider API
> stable, there is a complete client side available now in systemd, 
> with
> a client API in sd-bus. Compatibility with good old dbus1 is provided
> by the "systemd-bus-proxy" service.
> 
> The folks involved in kdbus development have been running this code 
> on
> their systems for more than half a year now. There were occasional
> hiccups, but we fixed everything we ran into, and it works pretty 
> well
> now. Our focus was specifically on providing the best possible
> compatibility with dbus1. Now we'd like to increase the testing
> audience and added this to Rawhide because of this.
> 
> Further information about kdbus and how to get started you may find
> here:
> 
>         http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/kdbus/
> 
> We'd very thankful for every Fedora developer testing this and
> providing bug reports! Any feedback is highly appreciated.
> 
> Also, should you attend our upcoming conference, we might return the
> favour by buying you a beer or two:
>        
>         https://systemd.events/
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Lennart


For folks not keen to jump headfirst into Rawhide, is it expected that
this should work on Fedora 23 or Fedora 22 if one installs only the
kernel and systemd packages from Rawhide? That might make people more
comfortable trying it out (and get you more feedback), if so.
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