service: Add a systemd unit for D-Bus activationwip/smcv/systemd-unit

On systems using systemd --user and
dbus-daemon --session --systemd-activation, this means that dconf
is correctly placed in its own cgroup, instead of being part of
dbus.service's cgroup. This allows it to be controlled by
systemctl --user, have resource limits set and so on.

On other systems (in particular those where systemd is not used at all),
the SystemdService field is ignored and dbus-daemon will continue to
start dconf-service as its own child process ("traditional activation"),
making this change harmless to apply.

Resolves: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dconf/-/issues/24
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>

5 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 41fe1a9..6e88015 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -48,6 +48,20 @@ glib_dep = dependency('glib-2.0', version: '>= 2.44.0')
 gio_module_dir = gio_dep.get_pkgconfig_variable('giomoduledir', define_variable: ['libdir', dconf_libdir])
 dbus_session_service_dir = dependency('dbus-1').get_pkgconfig_variable('session_bus_services_dir', define_variable: ['datadir', dconf_datadir])
 
+systemd_userunitdir = get_option('systemduserunitdir')
+
+if systemd_userunitdir == ''
+  systemd_dep = dependency('systemd', required: false)
+
+  if systemd_dep.found()
+    systemd_userunitdir = systemd_dep.get_pkgconfig_variable('systemduserunitdir')
+  else
+    # Fall back to the upstream default.
+    # Note that this is always 'lib', even if libdir is something else
+    systemd_userunitdir = join_paths(dconf_prefix, 'lib', 'systemd', 'user')
+  endif
+endif
+
 enable_bash_completion = get_option('bash_completion')
 if enable_bash_completion
   bash_completion_dep = dependency('bash-completion')
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index a2794ce..1b85d5d 100644
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -2,3 +2,4 @@ option('bash_completion', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'install ba
 option('man', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'generate man pages')
 option('gtk_doc', type: 'boolean', value: false, description: 'use gtk-doc to build documentation')
 option('vapi', type: 'boolean', value: true, description: 'install dconf client vapi')
+option('systemduserunitdir', type: 'string', value: '', description: 'override systemd user unit directory')
diff --git a/service/ca.desrt.dconf.service.in b/service/ca.desrt.dconf.service.in
index 369948a..be0b911 100644
--- a/service/ca.desrt.dconf.service.in
+++ b/service/ca.desrt.dconf.service.in
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 [D-BUS Service]
 Name=ca.desrt.dconf
 Exec=@libexecdir@/dconf-service
+SystemdService=dconf.service
diff --git a/service/dconf.service.in b/service/dconf.service.in
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1e40430
--- /dev/null
+++ b/service/dconf.service.in
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Configuration service
+Documentation=man:dconf-service(1)
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=@libexecdir@/dconf-service
+Type=dbus
+BusName=ca.desrt.dconf
diff --git a/service/meson.build b/service/meson.build
index 19fe670..ad635b0 100644
--- a/service/meson.build
+++ b/service/meson.build
@@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ configure_file(
   install_dir: dbus_session_service_dir,
 )
 
+systemd_service = 'dconf.service'
+
+configure_file(
+  input: systemd_service + '.in',
+  output: systemd_service,
+  configuration: service_conf,
+  install_dir: systemd_userunitdir,
+)
+
 lib_sources = [
   'dconf-blame.c',
   'dconf-gvdb-utils.c',