New Package: Avahi

[Randy McMurchy]

The Avahi package (​http://www.avahi.org/) would make a nice addition to BLFS. There are many reasons to add it. See: ​http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2006-May/015268.html

[Luca]

KControl from KDE-3.5.4 crashes on the peripherals/camera telling that it uses Apple Bonjour compatibily layer of Avahi and suggests to use the native API of Avahi. However it prints out a redirection, ​http://0pointer.de/avahi-compat?s=libdns_sd&e=kcontrol for more info, so I think that the --enable-compat-libdns_sd switch shouldn't be passed to configure.

[Randy McMurchy]

See closed ticket #2806 for some (possibly) relevant info.

[Wayne Blaszczyk]

Mmmm, there is a --with-distro=lfs option. How did that get in there? Anyway it fails with the following error: chmod +x avahi chmod: cannot access `avahi': No such file or directory make: * [avahi] Error 1

[willimm]

Replying to wblaszcz:

Mmmm, there is a --with-distro=lfs option. How did that get in there? Anyway it fails with the following error: chmod +x avahi chmod: cannot access `avahi': No such file or directory make: * [avahi] Error 1

I think I have something to do with it. Anyway, the error was human error on my part, and I made a patch to fix it, but it didn't get in to Avahi due to Lennart's selfishness and he diddn't like my "cat avahi.in > avahi" workaround (It was so that the makefiles are consitant), and he diddn't like LFS's bootscript system, calling it a link farm.

Anyway, I have the patch that makes Avahi 0.6.25 build. Wayne, please submit my patch to upstream and tell Lennart that this is so that Avahi can go into LFS.

[Wayne Blaszczyk]

I've tried out the patch and it doesn't work for me. I get the following:

make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/avahi-0.6.25/initscript/lfs'

cd ../.. && /bin/sh /sources/avahi-0.6.25/missing --run automake-1.10 --foreign initscript/lfs/Makefile

/sources/avahi-0.6.25/missing: line 54: automake-1.10: command not found WARNING: `automake-1.10' is missing on your system. You should only need it if

you modified Makefile.am', acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'. You might want to install the Automake' and Perl' packages. Grab them from any GNU archive site.

cd ../.. && /bin/sh ./config.status initscript/lfs/Makefile

config.status: creating initscript/lfs/Makefile make[3]: Leaving directory `/sources/avahi-0.6.25/initscript/lfs' make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/avahi-0.6.25/initscript/lfs' chmod +x avahi chmod: cannot access `avahi': No such file or directory make[3]: * [avahi] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/sources/avahi-0.6.25/initscript/lfs' make[2]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/avahi-0.6.25/initscript' make[1]: * [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/avahi-0.6.25' make: * [all] Error 2

I have automake 1.11 installed.

[willimm]

Replying to wblaszcz:

I've tried out the patch and it doesn't work for me. I get the following:

Yea, well, I have revised the same patch and I'm going to submit it to Upstream. I tested it with a LFS 6.6-rc1 system. I'll attach it soon.

[willimm]

Updated version of the LFS initscript patch.

[Robert L. Inglis]

avahidaemon

[Robert L. Inglis]

avahidnsconfd

[Robert L. Inglis]

I've been playing with Avahi and NetworkManager with the last couple of KDE4 builds. See the attached modified initscript/lfs files. They seem to work for me.

[willimm]

Replying to ringlis:

I've been playing with Avahi and NetworkManager with the last couple of KDE4 builds. See the attached modified initscript/lfs files. They seem to work for me.

I'll later merge ringlis additions into my patch, just give me a few minutes.

[Robert L. Inglis]

Replying to willimm:

Replying to ringlis:

I've been playing with Avahi and NetworkManager with the last couple of KDE4 builds. See the attached modified initscript/lfs files. They seem to work for me.

I'll later merge ringlis additions into my patch, just give me a few minutes.

willimm,

These "modified" make files create 2 init scripts, avahi-daemon and avahi-dnsconfd.

The avahi-source/initscript/lfs created only one init script "avahi". I wanted support for the mDNS daemon as well.

Your run-level links link to /etc/rc.d/init.d/avahi, but these modified files create /etc/r.c/init.d/{avahi-daemon, avahi-dnsconfd}.

avahidnsconfd.in had a minor typo in the script corrected in avahidnsconfd2.in.

[willimm]

New version of the Avahi LFS Initscripts patch. Please use, it also includes part of Ringlis' fixes. Run autoreconf -i -v right after applying this patch.

[willimm]

I've updated my patch to include some of Ringlis' fixes, including also starting up the mDNS server conf. daemon as well. If you want me to put that into a seprate bootscript, I'll do so.

[Robert L. Inglis]

I revisited this source after building Gnome-2.30. While pursuing NetworkManager and Gnome-2.30.

I made more modifications to enable avahi-autoipd along with the other avahi daemons.

See attached makefiles, init scripts.

[Robert L. Inglis]

Init changes: Removed /etc/rc.d/rcX.d/network run-level links to disable dhcpcd/static via services and allow networkmanager to take over this function. Haldaemon to run S20 vs S21. S20avahi-autoipd S21networkmanager (using slackware's init script (renamed), I still need to modify this make to suit LFS. Init error message stating /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf is missing but otherwise functions with defaults. S23avahi-daemon S23avahi-dnsconfd

So far the network functions using NM + Avahi vs dhcpcd. Still a work in progress. Any suggestions / fixes will be appreciated.

[willimm]

I'm not going to be adding in avahi-autoipd any day soon, as that daemon requires a network interface to start up correctly, and also the fact that most initscripts for other distros don't start that up either, so, the point of starting avahi-autoipd is rather moot for now.

For now, please use my attached patch that provides a good initscript for Avahi on LFS untill I find a way to intergrate avahi-autoipd.

[Robert L. Inglis]

Replying to willimm:

I'm not going to be adding in avahi-autoipd any day soon, as that daemon requires a network interface to start up correctly, and also the fact that most initscripts for other distros don't start that up either, so, the point of starting avahi-autoipd is rather moot for now.

For now, please use my attached patch that provides a good initscript for Avahi on LFS untill I find a way to intergrate avahi-autoipd.

After some testing it seems avahi-autoipd is redundant if you use NetworkManager or dhcpcd.

Avahi-autoipd starts up, query's for an IP then NetworkManager steps in and takes over the ethX interface.

[willimm]

Replying to ringlis:

After some testing it seems avahi-autoipd is redundant if you use NetworkManager or dhcpcd.

Well, at least we both agree that avahi-autoipd is rendered moot by DHCP clients or NetworkManager, and considiring that most distros don't start it up anyway, you may as well just forget about adding a avahi-autoipd bootscript.

[Wayne Blaszczyk]

Added new package to book, avahi-0.6.25

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