rawhide report: 20091007 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Wed Oct 7 06:15:12 UTC 2009
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
python-mwlib-0.11.2-3.20090522hg2956.fc12.ppc64 requires LabPlot
New package fped
A footprint editor used by openmoko developers
New package geda-gaf
Design Automation toolkit for electronic design
New package oflb-smonohand-fonts
A handwritten monospace font
New package windowlab
Small and Simple Amiga-like Window Manager
Updated Packages:
PackageKit-0.5.3-1.fc12
-----------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.3-1
- Update to 0.5.3.
- Fix double free in pk-gstreamer-install which causes a crash. Fixes #526600
- Exit pk-command-not-found with 127 when we have not run a program. Fixes #527044
- Fix crash in notification daemon under some conditions due to non-resident
GTK module.
- Don't explicitly download the file lists when using pk-command-not-found
* Tue Sep 29 2009 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.3-0.2.20090928git
- Do not build smart support on RHEL.
* Mon Sep 28 2009 Richard Hughes <rhughes(a)redhat.com> - 0.5.3-0.1.20090928git
- Update to a newer git snapshot from the 0.5.x series.
- Fixes command-not-found functionality
- Lots of updated translations
- Lots of updates and bugfixes to the experimental glib2 library
R-nws-2.0.0.3-1.fc12
--------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> - 2.0.0.3-1
- update to 2.0.0.3
Terminal-0.4.2-1.fc12
---------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Christoph Wickert <cwickert(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.4.2-1
- Update to 0.4.2
- Update icon cache scriptlets
asymptote-1.88-1.fc12
---------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> - 1.88-1
- update to 1.88
control-center-2.28.0-15.fc12
-----------------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.28.0-15
- Fix a crash in the about-me capplet (#525590)
crypto-utils-2.4.1-24
---------------------
* Sun Oct 04 2009 Elio Maldonado<emaldona(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.1-24
- Retagging for a Fedora-12 build (#526720)
* Thu Oct 01 2009 Elio Maldonado<emaldona(a)redhat.com> - 2.4.1-23
- Fix genkey to produce CSRs, certs, and key in ascii PEM format (#526720)
digikam-1.0.0-0.7.beta5.fc12
----------------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.0-0.7.beta5
- digikam-1.0.0-beta5
- tweak marble deps (again)
dracut-002-12.git8f397a9b.fc12
------------------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 002-12
- add missing loginit helper
- corrected dracut manpage
gdm-2.28.0-6.fc12
-----------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.28.4-6
- Fix the autostart file for at-spi-registryd
* Thu Oct 01 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.28.4-5
- Handle keyboard layout variants
gnome-utils-2.28.0-2.fc12
-------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1:2.28.0-2
- Move the usermode dep to the gnome-system-log package (#527295)
gtk2-2.18.2-1.fc12
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* Mon Oct 05 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.18.2-1
- Update to 2.18.2
hyphen-kn-0.20090924-1.fc12
---------------------------
* Thu Sep 24 2009 Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com> - 0.20090924-1
- update to 20090924
hyphen-pa-0.20090924-1.fc12
---------------------------
* Thu Sep 24 2009 Parag <pnemade(a)redhat.com> - 0.20090924-1
- update to 20090924
libbonobo-2.24.2-2.fc12
-----------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.24.2-2
- Fix a use-after-free in the mime code
libburn-0.7.0-1.fc12
--------------------
* Wed Sep 30 2009 Denis Leroy <denis(a)poolshark.org> - 0.7.0-1
- Update to upstream 0.7.0
- Fixed binary installation
- Removed rpath
libvirt-0.7.1-10.fc12
---------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> - 0.7.1-9
- Change logrotate config to weekly (#526769)
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> - 0.7.1-10
- Create /var/log/libvirt/{lxc,uml} dirs for logrotate
- Make libvirt-python dependon on libvirt-client
- Sync misc minor changes from upstream spec
ltsp-5.1.91-1.fc12
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* Tue Oct 06 2009 Warren Togami <wtogami(a)redhat.com> - 5.1.91-1
- 5.1.91 fixes install of chroots
nss-3.12.4-14.fc12
------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Elio Maldonado<emaldona(a)redhat.com> - 3.12.4-14
- Fix bug where user was prompted for a password when listing keys on an empty system database (#527048)
- Fix setup-nsssysinit to handle more general flags formats (#527051)
nwsclient-1.6.4-1.fc12
----------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> - 1.6.4-1
- update to 1.6.4
nwsserver-2.0.0-1.fc12
----------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2.0.0-1
- update to 2.0.0
plymouth-0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.3.fc12
----------------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.2
- Fix --show-splash after --hide-splash (bug 527299)
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.3
- Fix crasher in text plugin after password prompt (bug 526652)
- Actually apply the patch mentioned in 2009.29.09.2
qemu-0.11.0-4.fc12
------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> - 2:0.11.0-4
- Use rtl8029 PXE rom for ne2k_pci, not ne (#526777)
- Also, replace the gpxe-roms-qemu pkg requires with file-based requires
readahead-1.5.3-1.fc12
----------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 1.5.3-1
- fix readhead for new libaudit (bug #523400)
- don't leak file descriptors (bug #525893)
- also collect openat() calls
- ignore files > 10MB
rhythmbox-0.12.5-4.fc12
-----------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 0.12.5-4
- Make burning with brasero actually work, somewhat
shared-mime-info-0.70-1.fc12
----------------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> 0.70-1
- Update to 0.70
toped-0.9.5-1.fc12
------------------
* Sat Oct 03 2009 Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.5-0.1
- 0.9.5 test release
* Sat Oct 03 2009 Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.5-1
- 0.9.5 stable release
totem-2.28.1-2.fc12
-------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.1-2
- Make video burning work again
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.0-0.7.20091006git457646d73.fc12
-----------------------------------------------------
* Tue Oct 06 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 6.13.0-0.7.20091006git457646d73
- resnapshot with VT switch fixes and mixed issue was in server which is fixed
xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.9.0-2.fc12
-------------------------------
* Thu Oct 01 2009 Kristian Høgsberg <krh@hinata> - 2.9.0-2
- Rebase to 2.9.0.
- Need autoreconf also when patching a release (to pick up -ludev)
Summary:
Added Packages: 4
Removed Packages: 0
Modified Packages: 29
14 years, 6 months
olpc components in x86/x86_64 repo
by Rudolf Kastl
yum list all |grep olpc
dracut-modules-olpc.x86_64 0.2.1-2.fc12 rawhide
olpc-contents.x86_64 2.6-2.fc12 rawhide
olpc-library.noarch 2.0.2-2.fc12 rawhide
olpc-netutils.noarch 0.7-4.fc12 rawhide
olpc-switch-desktop.noarch 0.6-2.fc12 rawhide
olpc-update.noarch 2.20-1.fc12 rawhide
olpc-utils.x86_64 1.0.3-2.fc12 rawhide
does it really make sense to have those modules available on
x86/x86_64? (this is from rawhide)
kind regards,
Rudolf Kastl
14 years, 6 months
didn't see "md5 mismatch" error on today's Rawhide noarch packages
by Andre Robatino
There was at least one noarch package in today's Rawhide updates, and I
didn't see the usual "md5 mismatch" error when rebuilding the RPMs.
Does this mean that they are now being built on a little endian arch
(probably Intel), and if so, will this be done consistently from now on?
(At least until xz is changed to generate the same compressed output on
big endian.)
14 years, 6 months
Orphaning some packages [Was: Re: Buyer Beware: A Major Change in NFS is about to happen]
by Matej Cepl
(intentionally breaking the thread so this is not burried somewhere in
depths)
Michal Schmidt, Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:15:30 +0200:
> You're misinterpreting Jesse's quote out of context.
I am misunderstanding them (in case your interpretation is more correct).
So that's just that rel-eng doesn't have enough work to do (otherwise,
why they do not control only critical path components?).
So, this is not in protest of the current policy (this was just the last
straw which broke me to do The Right Thing™ finally) and I don't want to
make a drama from this (quoting Seth). However, for personal reasons I
need to decrease my personal involvment in non-work related Fedora work.
So, I am orphaning these packages:
pspp -- A program for statistical analysis of sampled data (simple free
clone of SPSS statistical package)
syncevolution -- SyncML client for evolution
jbrout -- Photo manager, written in python/pygtk
pyexiv2 -- Python binding to exiv2 (used by jbrout)
cycle -- Calendar program for women
ldapvi -- An interactive LDAP client
I really care about these packages, so please somebody take them. I am
willing to comaintain (meaning probably mostly to advice on the ways how
the community around them works), and if nobody will step up to maintain
them, I will probably stay maintaining them.
pspp is close to the new release, I was building for Rawhide all
prereleases (it mostly involves filing a bug report upstream for reach
rebuild, because pspp seems to be hitting many issues with our super-new
gcc and glibc).
syncevolution was just released and upgraded in Fedora.
I also wish to orphan these packages, and frankly I care about them much
less, so if nobody steps up, I will probably just let them die.
JSDoc -- Produces javadoc-style documentation from JavaScript sourcefiles
nimbus -- Desktop theme originally from Sun
python-libasyncns -- Python binding for libasyncns
python-urllib2_kerberos -- Kerberos over HTTP Negotiate/SPNEGO support
for urllib2
vim-vimoutliner -- Script for building an outline editor on top of Vim
All my packages are in good shape and I don't see any serious outstanding
issue in them.
Thanks a lot for anybody taking these.
Matěj
14 years, 6 months
rawhide report: 20091006 changes
by Fedora compose checker
Compose started at Tue Oct 6 06:15:15 UTC 2009
Broken deps for ppc64
----------------------------------------------------------
python-mwlib-0.11.2-3.20090522hg2956.fc12.ppc64 requires LabPlot
New package pure
A term-rewriting functional programming language
Removed package clutter-cairomm
Updated Packages:
DeviceKit-disks-007-4.fc12
--------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com> - 007-2.fc12
- Actually inhibit the daemon (#527091)
* Mon Oct 05 2009 David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com> - 007-3.fc12
- Rebuild
* Mon Oct 05 2009 David Zeuthen <davidz(a)redhat.com> - 007-4.fc12
- Rebuild
anaconda-12.33-1.fc12
---------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 David Cantrell <dcantrell(a)redhat.com> - 12.33-1
- Remove an errant popd. Probably cut/paste error. (jkeating)
- Only add the .img file to .treeinfo if it exists. (jkeating)
- Make the netboot dir before trying to use it (jkeating)
- Fix existing size calculation for NTFS (#520627) (dcantrell)
- Write label to filesystem if we have one set (#526226, #526242) (dcantrell)
- Add wget to the initrd, which is required for rhts. (clumens)
- Fix the check for no /boot request on PPC yet again (#526843). (clumens)
- Surround the stage2= parameter in quotes for RHEL (#526863). (clumens)
- Stop dragging mkinitrd into the install (hdegoede)
- Force interface up before checking link status (#525071). (dcantrell)
- Don't try to do format handling on drives without media (#523467)
(hdegoede)
- Wait for mdraid arrays to become clean before reboot / halt (hdegoede)
- Stop /lib/udev/rules.d/65-md-incremental.rules from messing with mdraid
sets (hdegoede)
at-spi-1.28.0-3.fc12
--------------------
* Fri Oct 02 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1.28.0-3
- Fix an oversight in the previous patch that caused
registryd to slow down logout by ~10 seconds
bluez-4.55-1.fc12
-----------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> 4.55-1
- Update to 4.55
brasero-2.28.1-1.fc12
---------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.1-1
- Update to 2.28.1, fixes a number of crashes and other serious bugs:
- Fix a crash when we try to download a missing gstreamer plugin through PK
- Don't fail if a drive cannot be checksumed after a burn
- Fix a data corruption when libisofs was used for a dummy session
- Fix #596625: brasero crashed with SIGSEGV in brasero_track_data_cfg_add
- Fix progress reporting
...
control-center-2.28.0-14.fc12
-----------------------------
dcbd-0.9.15-5.fc12
------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Jan Zeleny <jzeleny(a)redhat.com> - 0.9.15-5
- replaced the last patch, which was not fully functional, with
the new one
dnsmasq-2.48-4.fc12
-------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com> - 2.48-4
- Fix multiple TFTP server vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-2957, CVE-2009-2958)
* Wed Aug 12 2009 Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta(a)iki.fi> - 2.48-3
- Use lzma compressed upstream tarball.
fedora-release-11.92-1
----------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 11.92-1
- Bump for 12-Beta
gnome-disk-utility-2.28.0-4.fc12
--------------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.0-4.fc12
- Incorporate fixes for translation issues from the stable upstream branch
gnome-keyring-2.28.0-2.fc12
---------------------------
* Fri Oct 02 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.0-2
- Avoid a 10 second delay at logout
gnome-terminal-2.28.0-2.fc12
----------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.28.0-2
- Fix a small memory leak
gpxe-0.9.7-6.fc12
-----------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Matt Domsch <mdomsch(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.7-6
- move rtl8029 from -roms to -roms-qemu for qemu ne2k_pci NIC (BZ 526776)
grsync-0.9.2-1.fc12
-------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Christoph Wickert <cwickert(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.9.2-1
- new upstream release (fixes #524169)
gstreamer-0.10.25-1.fc12
------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> 0.10.25-1
- Update to 0.10.25
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.25-1.fc12
-------------------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> 0.10.25-1
- Update to 0.10.25
libcap-ng-0.6.2-2.fc12
----------------------
* Sat Oct 03 2009 Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com> 0.6.2-2
- Apply patch correcting pscap and netcap acct detection
libxklavier-4.0-5.fc12
----------------------
* Fri Oct 02 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 4.0-5
- Handle BadDrawable errors gracefully
mcelog-0.9pre1-0.1.fc12
-----------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com> - 1:0.9pre1-0.1
- Update to 0.9pre1
- Update URL
- Add patch to update mcelog kernel record length (bug #507026)
mdadm-3.0.2-1.fc12
------------------
* Fri Oct 02 2009 Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.2-1
- New upstream release 3.0.2
- Add a patch fixing mdadm --detail -export segfaults (bz526761, bz523862)
- Add a patch making mdmon store its state under /dev/.mdadm for initrd
mdmon, rootfs mdmon handover
- Restart mdmon from initscript (when running) for rootfs mdmon handover
mlocate-0.22.2-1.fc12
---------------------
* Fri Oct 02 2009 Miloslav Trmač <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 0.22.2-1
- Update to mlocate-0.22.2
nautilus-open-terminal-0.17-3.fc12
----------------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 0.17-2
- Plug a small leak
python-virtinst-0.500.0-5.fc12
------------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com> - 0.500.0-5.fc12
- Update translations (bz 493795)
system-config-audit-0.4.13-1.fc12
---------------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Miloslav Trmač <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 0.4.13-1
- Update to system-config-audit-0.4.13.
telepathy-gabble-0.8.5-1.fc12
-----------------------------
* Fri Oct 02 2009 Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.5-1
- Update to 0.8.5.
* Wed Sep 30 2009 Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.8.4-1
- Update to 0.8.4.
usermode-1.102-1.fc12
---------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Miloslav Trmač <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 1.102-1
- Update to usermode-1.102
util-linux-ng-2.16-10.2.fc12
----------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com> 2.16-10.2
- fix #519237 - bash: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
* Fri Oct 02 2009 Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com> 2.16-10.1
- #514413 - Extra spaces at the end of CD mount point
vbetool-1.2.2-1.fc12
--------------------
* Fri Oct 02 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 1.2.2-1
- update to 1.2.2 - fixes infinte loops on s/r (#516694)
virt-manager-0.8.0-7.fc12
-------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Cole Robinson <crobinso(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.0-7.fc12
- More translations (bz 493795)
- Don't allow creating a volume without a name (bz 526111)
- Don't allow volume allocation > capacity (bz 526077)
- Add tooltips for toolbar buttons (bz 524083)
xorg-x11-server-1.7.0-1.fc12
----------------------------
* Mon Oct 05 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied(a)redhat.com> 1.7.0-1
- rebase to 1.7.0 upstream release - were 99% this already
Summary:
Added Packages: 1
Removed Packages: 1
Modified Packages: 30
14 years, 6 months
Oracle DB 4.8.24 released
by Jindrich Novy
Hi!
Oracle released a new DB 4.8.24 recently and it is now ready to hit
rawhide. Before that happens I want to let you test your package(s)
with this new release so that we may delay updating to the latest
version if severe problems with it are reported.
With an exception of the RPC support which was dropped by upstream you
shouldn't experience lots of incompatibilities.
For testing you can use packages from this scratch build:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1730146
Jindrich
--
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14 years, 6 months
KDE-SIG weekly report (41/2009)
by Sebastian Vahl
This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the
topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply
to this email or add it to the related meeting page.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= Weekly KDE Summary =
Week: 41/2009
Time: 2009-10-06 14:00 UTC
Meeting page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-10-06
Meeting minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2009-10-06/fedora-meeting.2009-10-06-14.01.html
Meeting log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2009-10-06/fedora-meeting.2009-10-06-14.01.log.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= Participants =
* BenBoeckel
* JaroslavReznik
* KevinKofler
* LukasTinkl
* RexDieter
* SebastianVahl
* StevenParrish
* ThanNgo
* ThomasJanssen
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= Agenda =
* topics to discuss
o F-12 kde spin status
o Tracking ongoing development/projects: please use bugzilla. examples
include: kdm fprint, ooo kde integration, PolKitOne-qt
o qt-4.5.3 builds broken, missing translations
o kde-4.3.2 status
o FUDCon Toronto 2009
* recent bugs:
o qt/selinux
= Summary =
o F-12 kde spin status:
* The x86_64 version of the KDE live images is a bit oversized due to new
constantine-backgrounds package (703 megs).
* phonon-backend-gstreamer will also be added as default in @kde-desktop
(phonon-backend-xine will still be the default used by phonon).
* The live images are affected by a new selinux denial which needs further
investigation: #520022: SELinux is preventing loadkeys (loadkeys_t) "write"
/home/liveuser/.xsession-errors (user_home_t).
o Tracking ongoing development/projects:
* We've got complaints that we don't fill enough feature pages.
* Features pages for KDE 4.4, PackageKit1-qt, KDE fingerprint and abrt support
will be created for F13.
* This way our cool new features would get the proper attention.
o qt-4.5.3 builds broken, missing translations:
* The qt-4.5.3 builds are broken again.
* ThanNgo will look into that breakage.
o kde-4.3.2 status:
* The rawhide builds for KDE 4.3.2 should be done by today.
o FUDCon Toronto 2009:
* KDE SIG members who will attend: RexDieter, StephenParrish, BenBoeckel.
Maybe: JaroslavReznik.
* Aaron Seigo will be there too (if funding for his costs will be provided).
= Recent bugs =
#527079: setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/arora from changing a
writable memory segment executable.
* The JIT disabler patch from Qt 4.5.3 will be backported to F12.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= Next Meeting =
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2009-10-13
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
= Buglist =
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520022
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527079
14 years, 6 months
PolicyKitOne or consolehelper for command line tool ?
by steve
Hi,
I am a user of the 'usb_modeswitch'[1] tool which is also available as a Fedora
package.
Since this is a tool to be run as super-user but currently does not error out or
warn when it is not invoked by root. I thought that i'd file a bug against the
package to prompt for root password.
I had a general idea that the general way to do this was by using
consolehelper/userhelper. So, i decided to do some research and submit a bug
report with a recommended solution, but i came across this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502765
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PolicyKitOne
So, here are my questions
a. Does this also apply for CLI tools such as usb_modeswitch ?
b. If not, shouldn't that be explicitly stated in the BZ/wiki page ?
c. If yes, is there a doc where I can learn more about PolicyKitOne ? I admit, i
really don't know much about the PolicyKit framework itself, but little that i
know, had me believing that PolicyKit is more of a Gnome (or rather a
freedesktop thing). In any case, an introduction/doc of the /current/ state of
PolicyKit too would help.
cherrs,
- steve
[1] http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/
--
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tech randomness: http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/
what i'm stumbling into: http://lonetwin.stumbleupon.com/
14 years, 6 months