On 03/03/2021 03:29, George N. White III wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2021 at 12:25, Francisco Tissera <audiogamer2004@gmail.com <mailto:audiogamer2004@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Dear George,
>
> Thanks for the changelog, I’ll download and install 6.3 then.
>
> Would I just download the rpm and install it, or would I have to download the source rpm as well? Brltty.com lists both, and so I don’t know how to go about it the right way.
>
>
> You should not need the source rpm. Try "dnf install Downloads/brltty-6.3-1.x86_64.rpm". If there is an
> error, post the error message here for advice. There could be issues with a signature (if |localpkg_gpgcheck|
> is set to True) or the version of a library (might require building the package on Fedora 33).
Just wondering.
You're suggesting the OP download and install brltty from brltty.com why? Has the fedora supplied
version proven not to work?
Apparently the Fedora package doesn't create a group needed by brltty (a capability added in 6.3).
The online docs mention a group with user-defined name (for access to a "key") as well as setgid.
I'm not sure if there is more than one group needed, or whether there are other constraints (values
less than 1000) so it is best to get groups set up by systemd.
The Fedora package may have been tested and only used system that already had the group(s) defined.
The brltty RPM has the "linux-screen" driver which provides the simplest useful configuration so a good
starting point.
I also notice that the number of packages supplied by brltty.com for each release are different than
that supplied in the fedora repo. Could that be significant in any way?
I assume whoever maintains the Fedora rpm can only test a small subset of the available devices.