Issue #2149 - BMC patching - service file changes

Andrew Jeffery andrew at aj.id.au
Fri Aug 25 10:15:28 AEST 2017


On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 21:07 +0000, Michael Tritz wrote:
> All,
>  
> Per commit https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/6009/ (related to
> issue https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/2149), service file
> references to {sbindir} and {bindir} are changing to "/usr/bin/env ".
> Additionally, we're using the SyslogIdentifier parameter to ensure
> that all executables have their output recorded in an identifiable
> format in the logs. Please follow this example for new service files.
>  
> The purpose of this change is to enable patching from the
> /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin paths - these directories are
> higher priority in the PATH than the typical executable directories
> /usr/bin and /usr/sbin, so developers will be able to patch specific
> executables without overwriting the files in those locations.
>  
> Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks for highlighting the change.

Andrew

>  
> Thanks,
> Michael Tritz
> 
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